Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade, a bomb exploded on Market Street, killed ten people, wounded 40 others. Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators, were convicted of the crime, went to jail for life. Their trials were later shown to have been honeycombed with perjured evidence against them. Judge & jury recommended their pardon. The case became interwoven with State politics. Governor after California Governor was implored by large sections of organized Labor, the Press and the Pulpit to set justice to rights by releasing Mooney & Billings. Though 15 years of prison life have greyed them...
...Ruskin '33 for Harvard, Conn for Stanford, M. G. Hoffman '34 for Harvard, Huneke for Stanford. Conn, stressing the inefficiency of Congress, concluded Stanford's negative case in a short rebuttal, and Ruskin closed the affirmative argument for Harvard pointing out the need for centralization in dealing with crime. No decision was given...
Thomas first turned to the crime and racketeering in this country and prophesied that a violent revolt against it might come before the end of the year, though provoked by police tactics. "The cynical 'wise-cracking' acceptance of racketeering at the present time which causes people to loose their capacity for indignation will go, as Americans have a natural love for rioting. Labor uprisings in this country are invariably more violent than abroad," he said...
...biggest crime of the Dictatorship...
...strait-jacket a highly intelligent school student is to commit a crime against education: to allow his liberty of study, (not to be confused with freedom from work), is to placate the gods of Wisdom and Learning. It is not hard to see which of the two courses of action Yale should pursue. --Yale Daily News