Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called "criminal" justice can be greatly improved by fewer rigid laws such as those of the Jones 5 & 10 calibre. Bigger and better prisons and jails would not be needed if our present laws would demand that the intent of the accused to commit crime be established as per requirements of malum in se laws, rather than the laws which our "overworked" and zealous legislators hand out known as malum prohibition laws, where criminal intent is not essential to commit crime and to become a "criminal...
...Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre to every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West. Nevada heads the list, with the U. S. owning 75% of its surface territory. Utah is next with 47% U. S. ownership and Wyoming third with...
...should be made primarily to your superiors in Washington, instead of 'passing the buck' to the State law-enforcing officers. Your plan would necessitate increasing the police personnel by 5,000 men, costing the taxpayers of the City of New York a minimum of $15,000,000 per annum...
Proud of his success thus far, confident that he can jam the whole Five Year Program through, Dictator Stalin announced last week that he would add another billion dollars to Russia's budget for 1930. thus raising the Soviet Government's total expenditure to five billion dollars per annum (13% more than is spent by the U. S. Government). Further, the area of land under cultivation is to be increased by 8%, and most startling of all, Russian industrial production is to be raised...
...modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution of the Present Family Form, Those Who Have Not Married, the Hypertrophy of Family Bonds, Women as Prostitutes, Divorce as a Means of Family Dissolution...