Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Criminal justice in America is now a Roman holiday. The courts are in the Colosseum. The state's attorney's office often is an open torture room of human souls. Exposure of the processes of justice, originally a public safeguard, has been perverted into a public danger. They have been exploited as a field of popular amusement. They are a rich for- age for sensation mongers and the yellow press. Their publicity uncontrolled is debasing American thought. It is contributing to the delinquency of criminal justice...
...laws. The superseded law placed a premium on pushing in as soon as the clock struck twelve for the beginning of a new immigration year. The present law says : "Get a certificate before you start and come over at your leisure." The result is less rush, less hardship, less danger...
...First, exclusionists say the Japanese are unassimilable with American life, and the introduction of such alien elements would prove a source of danger to the United States. This formed the essential plea for the exclusion of the Japanese. It was not on account of inferiority of the Japanese race that the exclusion clause was adopted...
...stated that Benito would answer the bombardment of his foes in a speech on the murder case to the Senators and in another to the Deputies. Critics professed to see grave danger to Mussolini's tenure of office unless he were able to exculpate Fascismo from the opprobrium of guilt which now surrounds...
...motor dead when passing over Dayton. The usual method of gliding to safety in some field or other was impossible in the pitch dark. With his altimeter reading between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, the pilot guided his plane to the outskirts of the town, to minimize danger to others, and stayed on board as long as he dared. He then unloosed his safety belt, crawled out on the wing, and jumped into 1,800 feet of darkness. The wind blew him clear, and he counted two before pulling the rip cord, so that the parachute might be clear...