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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals elaborated the view that punishment of criminals should take the form of compulsory restitution to society of whatever the criminals have taken from society. "When a man has killed another, why should the widow be left to starve when this man, under the law, might be compelled to provide a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Buffalo | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...three cases considered in Conflicts are 1) the actions of a high-minded English widow when she found that the only way she could save a young gambler from suicide was to let him believe her a prostitute; 2) the suppressed tragedy of a wealthy bourgeois whose sufferings from gallstones was eclipsed by circumstantial evidence that his young daughter was promiscuous; 3) the tragedy of sex perversion in a brilliant professor, as climaxed and discovered by his most ardent disciple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Number 100 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Married. Major General Robert Lee Bullard, 66, widower, retired War-time commander of the American Second Army, to Mrs. Ella Reiff Wall, 52, widow; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Advice, often unwelcome, is sometimes valuable. Thus, alert newsreaders were last week glad to share the admonitions offered to widow, daughters, grandchildren, in the will of Elbert H. Gary, late U. S. Steel Corp. head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Advice | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Malvina Belle Ogden Armour, 85, widow of Philip Danforth Armour, founder of Armour & Co., meat packers, and mother of Jonathan Ogden Armour, present head of the firm; of old age infirmities, in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 8, 1927 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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