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...last session, Governor Bailey promised to support the President's program in full, announced that Representative Miller's candidacy was "conceived in malice and born in hatred of the President's . . . administration." Apparently deciding that criticism of the New Deal was an offense less heinous than highhandedness, Arkansas voters this week swept Representative Miller into higher office by a decisive majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Bailey v. Miller | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...word spread swiftly throughout the city that Homer Martin had pulled a pistol on his own men, the milling crowd outside the hotel grew so big that police were called to disperse it. Rumors spread that Homer Martin was setting the police on his own men-a more heinous labor crime than pulling a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Purge & Pistol | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Those in charge of the schools act as if they thought the children had committed some heinous crime which could be expiated only by long years of sadness, mental strain and physical injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A. B. See to Westinghouse | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Granted that the Filipinos brought before his bench have committed heinous crimes from a to z. That does not necessarily mean that the Filipino people by and large are criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Rayan has already left college. As far as the courts are concerned, Judge Green, after considering the brutal nature of the offense and his previous record, should give him a sufficiently heavy sentence to convince him of the heinous nature of his crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCIPLINING ACTION | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

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