Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well satisfied were most U. S. citizens. Well satisfied was President Herbert Clark Hoover, credited with personally setting in motion the Government's war against organized crime. Well satisfied was U. S. District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson, bushy spearhead of the Chicago drive. Not so well satisfied was Henry Hastings Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. In Washington he lamented: "Never before have we seen Uncle Sam with one hand trying to lock up a man for his felonies and with the other hand trying to collect a good income...
...devoted friends. It was later proved in the courts that these men had betrayed not alone | his] friendship and trust but their country. That was the tragedy of the life of Warren Harding. . . . The breakdown of the faith of the people in the honesty of the Government [is] a crime for which punishment can never atone. . . . Warren Harding was a man of delicate sense of honor, of sympathetic heart, of transcendent gentleness of soul ... of passionate patriotism ... of deep religious feeling." ¶ After a year's trial President Hoover last week exiled dial telephones from the White House...
...Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However distressing it may be when a client comes to his lawyer and confesses to being implicated in a murder, the lawyer's situation becomes even more painful when he is asked to defend another person (Richard Arlen) unjustly accused of the same crime. To accept this case would be to endanger his first client and therefore
...guilty client. This highly improbable quandary was deemed suitable for the transformation of Charles ("Buddy") Rogers from a wildly popular juvenile of early talkies into a somewhat hollow-eyed young character actor who does not find forbiddingly incongruous a role in which he is definitely connected with a crime and finally given a jail sentence...
...profession, [as] medical certification in cases of the so-called miracles, the question of sterilizing the criminally insane, race suicide, mental and spiritual healing cults, the relations of science to the Church, the attitude of the Church toward expectant motherhood, and toward the matter of responsibility for crime...