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Last year the law was slightly liberalized. The ban on persons with police records was lifted to admit those who had committed nothing more than a misdemeanor. Before that, a refugee who, for example, had forged a ration card in Nazi Germany was excluded. Categories were also changed to admit more easy-to-process Dutch, Greek and Italian relatives of U.S. residents in place of refugees in those countries...
Attempted suicide is a misdemeanor in New Jersey, and last week New Jersey's Republican Party was looking somewhat misdemeanant. When Senatorial Candi date Clifford Case rose to speak at the Morris County Fair one night, sign-carrying pickets marched around the fringe of the crowd. "You're off base if you vote for Case," said one. Outside of New Jersey it would have been considered strange that signs attacking Republican Case were carried by Republicans...
...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...