Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure in Federal courts (TIME, Sept. 26), which the American Bar Association had for 25 years tried in vain to obtain. Of all his monuments, these...
...principally he sees him as a creature of the great age of English poetry, when poets lived the violent life of their time and when no crime was too brutal and no hero too exalted to have a place in their verse...
...this month's 15 crime stories, three stood out as best bets...
...arrested and it was revealed that just prior to the killing of vom Rath they were held under arrest for five days on suspicion of harboring an undesirable alien. Their papers were seized and the French Surete Generale probed to discover who really were the "intellectual originators" of the crime...
...Britain's Neville Chamberlain did say: "No one in this country would seek to defend the senseless crime of the murder of vom Rath, but at the same time there will be deep and widespread sympathy for those being made to suffer...