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...Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage in the mall under the section of the U. S. Penal Code relating to the sending through the mails of libelous, scurrilous, defamatory and threatening matter...
Education, Crime Commission, Labor and Housing Laws-these were other headings in the Smith record to which, without elaboration by him, his friends could point with pride. Within a decade, New York had stepped up her education appropriations from 83 to 290 millions per annum. Her new penal code, drawn by a Smith-suggested crime commission under State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, had become the model for many another state...
...Crime Commission of New York State (Caleb H. Baumes, chairman) has lately wrought upon U. S. penal codes the most signal changes of the decade. The Baumes grading of punishments for repeated felonies, topped off by life imprisonment for a fourth conviction regardless of degree, has been the model for tightened laws in many a state. The theory underlying the Baumes code is that crime is disease, that habitual criminals are chronic patients. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York appeared before the Baumes commission a fortnight ago and elaborated its theory of crime still further. He made suggestions which...
Methods. There exist mechanical and chemical means of preventing conception. But it is illegal in this country to tell your neighbor about them. Section 211 of the Federal Penal Code forbids that...
...load the dice," i.e. stiffen the law. "He gambles with the law," said Miss Esch, "playing three to one he never will be caught, two to one he never will be convicted, and then playing a last chance [that] he will never be sent to a state penal institution...