Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to this view poverty is not the cause of crime but simply determines its nature. Neither does Dr. Sutherland agree with Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton that crime has a genetic basis. He believes that crime, whether upper-class or lower-class, is learned by association with other malefactors already in the field...
...After Higgins & Co. were acquitted, an eighth defendant pleaded guilty to the same charges. Hauled back to account for themselves before Supreme Court Justice Albert Conway, four jurors were fined $250 apiece, jailed for 30 days. Their offense: announcing that they were for acquittal before all the testimony...
...leviathans. Even these would be 30,000 tons bigger than the biggest now in the U. S. fleet, 23,900 tons bigger than Great Britain's Hood (biggest afloat), and would be too bulky to get through the Panama Canal. Said Sub-Committeeman Charles Albert Plumley of Northfield, Vt., thumbing his Yankee nose at the British: "I'm sick and tired of just match, match. This matching game is absurd. I want a winning team...
Fluttery Hilda Davis (wife of Dance-Band Leader Meyer Davis), who owns a lock of Lord Byron's hair, a page from the Gutenberg Bible, a promissory note for $100,000 made out to E. L. Doheny and signed by Ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, announced with pride her purchase for $15,000 of the original manuscript of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. Said she: "Isn't it thrilling...
Died. George Eumorfopoulos, 76, English-born Greek art collector who gave his priceless Oriental and Chinese ceramics, bronzes, sculptures to the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum for a paltry $500,000 (TIME, Jan. 28, 1935); in London...