Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right of all who are baptized Catholics to be accompanied to the tomb by a priest. We cannot lose this right-as one can lose the citizenship of a temporal country-by committing a crime or misdemeanor, for no human can judge another...
...Plainfield, Ind., Farmer Raymond Heald got fed up with townspeople throwing beer bottles, tin cans and garbage in his fields, "gave them back what they'd been giving me" by dumping a load of garbage in front of the town hall, was acquitted of committing a misdemeanor by a jury which included eight farmers...
...knock, then pose as a salesman if he found people in the apartments he entered. He told police he had restricted his activity to between a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset, since he knew that daytime breaking and entering was only a misdemeanor, whereas in the night it was a felony...
Ever since some unspeakably degraded character stole his hunting dog, Arkansas' 81-year-old State Senator William Abington has conducted a vociferous and indignant legislative crusade-to make dog theft a felony (instead of a mere misdemeanor) within the borders of the "wonder state." When Senator Abington's "houn'-dawg bill" was put to a vote last week, his fellow legislators were ready...
...loyalty oath controversy. During the Spring of 1949 Tenney had submitted five loyalty oath bills to the California legislature. These and twelve other pieces of similar legislation were the products of Senator Tenney's state committee on un-American activities. Among other things, they would have made it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...