Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wald also denounced corporations for paying taxes he described as minuscule, for carrying industrial espionage to lengths he characterized as "murder," and for helping to induce the U.S. government "to supply arms and all other kinds of aid to the torturers, the murderers" in such countries as Chile, the Philippines, and South Vietnam...
...strongest of nations, completely disarm, we may be overrun by other nations. But these other nations will realize that in these days of high division of labor our prosperity is essential to their prosperity. The passions of murder will not be let loose, and the invaders for their own well-being will recognize their dependence on our industrial prosperity...
...latest of these nervous persons who view with alarm is Vice President Frederick L. Hoffman of the Babson Institute, who should know better. Speaking in Ford Hall Sunday evening Mr. Hoffman made the hair rise on the heads of his listeners by informing them that whereas the murder rate had formerly been only seventy-two out of every million, it was now nearly eighty. The number of corpses, he darkly insinuated would, if place end to end, extend for nearly twenty miles; and in ten years, if business is good, the line would stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...wasteful with his material; he has contented himself with a mere outline, where an experienced sensationalist could have been really spectacular. For example, it would be interesting to know how large an excavation could be filled with the dirt removed from the ten thousand graves occupied each year by murderers and their victims; and also whether the knives and bullets extracted from the deceased would, if melted up in a large brass cauldron, be numerous enough to east into a life size status of Gyp the Hloon, to be placed at the entrance to Murder Alley...
These interesting lacis, while appatent by unimportant, have a very definite purpose. To tell a man that the murder rate is increasing by so many per so and so means relatively nothing; but if it is possible to conjure up before his mind's eye a picture of all the people killed last year cluttering up the roadway from Boston to Lowell, he becomes genuinely disturbed. And if he is disturbed he may do something about...