Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State gained national attention and considerable imitation when it first led out stiffly against Crime with its famed Baumes Laws. These severe penal statutes overcrowded the state's prisons with life-term felons, helped breed the fierce despair among herded inmates which fired last year's deadly riots at Auburn and Dannemora (TIME...
Prison reform was naturally Item No.1 on the political program at Albany last week when the legislature convened to receive the annual message of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Officials throughout the land pricked up their ears to hear what New York was going to do next about crime. To the legislature Governor Roosevelt proposed: 1) large additional appropriations for prison construction; 2) five emergency prison camps for outdoor work; 3) increase of prisoner's ration allowance from 21? to 26?; 4) more prudent selection and training of guards...
...Crime has political significance only locally, however. Outlanders listened even more attentively to what the country's prime Democratic officeholder, the governor of the state which contains Niagara Falls, would have to say about Water Power. For six years New York's Democratic governors and Republican legislatures have bickered violently but fruitlessly over hydro-electric control. Alfred Emanuel Smith, as Governor, laid down the Democratic plan: state ownership, control and development of St. Lawrence River power sites. The Republican plan: control and development of power sites by private interests under mild state supervision...
...lecture, while emphasizing the importance of education as a long term investment, he said, "One good teacher is worth a platoon of police. Because of what they have failed to do, our schools are in large measure responsible for this country's shameful record of crime." He deprecated the fact that today nationalism is developed, even in unsuspected subjects, as philology and geography. In general terms he developed the thesis that "it is in extra curricula activities that the secondary schools are now most effective not only in the clubs and assemblies, and the like, but also in the more...
Meanwhile Police Commissioner Whalen entrained for Chicago where Police Commissioner William F. Russell exhibited the city's traffic situation and they discussed ballistics (study of bullets, firearms, etc.) as an aid to crime detection. And the New York Bar Association prepared to investigate the career of Magistrate Vitale. They had secured a folder inscribed with his name which was found among the records of the murdered gambler Arnold Rothstein (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Magistrate Vitale, finding himself enmeshed in a case which involved three of the most unsavory names in recent New York history-Marlow, Yale, Rothstein-kept...