Word: criming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago crime investigators rushed to St. Joseph. A microscopic comparison of scratched bullets from one of the machine guns with those found in the bodies of seven gangsters slain in the Moran whiskey depot last winter strengthened their conviction that Burke had led Chicago's famed St. Valentine's Day massacre (TIME, Feb. 25). To him are attributed at least four other murders, among them the killing of Brooklyn Gang King Frank Uale (TIME, July 9, 1928). The Federal government and six States want him for shootings or bank banditry. Rewards between $60,000 and $75,000 (depending...
...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...
CORPSE GUARDS PARADE-Milward Kennedy-Crime Club...
...killed by a blow on the head, and shot afterwards. The finding of the murderer is a comparatively simple matter after it is proved who was murdered. Five detectives, professional and amateur, work at the unraveling: though some smart readers may guess the answer, it will be a seasoned crime-story fan who can guess which of these dark horses finally comes in ahead...
...into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city is in full swing, with industries, entertainments, police, prostitution and crime. The German prisoners, with great patience and ingenuity, forge banknotes. Gradually, long after the War is over, the camp disintegrates; our hero makes his precarious way home, nearly three years after the Armistice...