Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...talked with a half a dozen attorneys and they didn't know any more than I did. In 1926 the Circuit Court of Appeals held that income from illicit sources could not be taxed. The next year the Supreme Court ruled differently. I have never committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have never done anything that is condemned by society as morally wrong. I didn't pay income taxes because the laws were not clear. But if society demands a penalty from me I am glad to pay it." Had Gangster Nitti been detected bringing merchandise dutiable...
...CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
Next was born TripleX. Under the same basic title, the magazine would follow public taste like a weather vane, giving in turn stories of war, flying, crime, etc. Currently it is Triple-X Western (115,000). Author Jim Tully got his start when Triple-X first published his Beggars of Life...
...trial. Presiding judge was no obscure radio performer, but U. S. Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner, good friend of Publisher Hearst and a onetime supreme court justice in New York State. Prosecutor was Ferdinand Pecora, onetime chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan, a name well known to readers of Manhattan crime news. Chief counsel for defense was George Gordon Battle, noted Manhattan lawyer, attorney for the New York Stock Exchange. Other parts were taken by professionals, notably including Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot Gaston, socialite niece of Pennsylvania's Governor-elect Gifford Pinchot, in the role of the accused, lovely "Vivienne...
...increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something not very different from what Bugs Moran and Al Capone mean today. And who will blame them...