Word: classing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home rhapsodies about the fine treatment they have been given by "The Tommy's Friend." In London the Daily Express of self-made Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook gloomed: "Mr. Oliver Stanley is a most unsatisfactory appointment. . . . He belongs to the Tory hierarchy. . . . Belisha does not belong to that class...
...encounter (TIME, Dec. 4) capital ships have been out looking for the raider Deutschland, and also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port...
...passenger miles per passenger fatality, 1936 and 1937 were far worse than 1933; 1938 was no better than 1933; but 1939 was in a class by itself. The figures...
...title of a rip-snorting paper by Dr. Edwin Hardin Sutherland of Indiana University, last year's president of the American Sociological Society. He does not agree with many criminologists that crime is caused by poverty-stricken environments or by mental and physiological conditions associated with poverty. He classed as white-collar criminals the "robber barons" of the 19th Century and the Kreugers, Staviskys, Insulls, Whitneys, Coster-Musicas of the 20th, contended that there exists a great welter of less spectacular white-collar rascality-short weights in stores, commercial bribery, willful violations of food and drug laws, thefts...
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...