Word: gluecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews have long memories for righteous acts. The moral stature of Denmark and Sweden will ever be recorded in the annals of our history...
...sentencing stage the best of judges is in no position to determine the length of treatment necessary for the individual case," Glueck's report states. Present Massachusetts law allows too much arbitrariness in penalties imposed for particular crimes. A coordinating body could remedy this situation, the study continues...
...legislation is based on a study Glueck conducted while a member of a Commonwealth Commission...
Massachusetts is saddled with a haphazard system of piecemeal criminal legislation, Glueck's report states. The State lacks a unified, consistent theory of punishment and an integrative organ to coordinate the various agencies dealing with punishment and parole...
...Glueck emphasizes that the procedure would be geared to rehabilitation. Each case would come under constant scrutiny as the treatment progressed, and sentence could be modified depending on the individual's progress...