Word: criminologists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alcohol injected into certain nerves as they emerge from the spine relieves pain without otherwise affecting the patient. Therefore, Dr. Perry Maurice Lichtenstein, Manhattan criminologist, uses the method to speed the cure of narcotic addicts. The alcohol quiets the nausea, neuralgia and other symptoms which the addict surfers while quitting his habit...
...board of directors. Mr. Harriman's sister, Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairlady of the NRA Consumers Advisory Board, once backed a friend, William Johnson, in an ambitious but unsuccessful Editors' Feature Service (newspaper syndicate), but she is no editorial genius. Neither, for popular purposes, is Raymond Moley, criminologist, economist and erstwhile chief of President Roosevelt's Brain Trust, whose resignation therefrom last fortnight was explained on the grounds that he was to serve the New Deal by editing a weekly magazine to be financed by the other three (TIME, Sept. 4). The practical brains of the group...
...police staff, similar to the "National Scotland Yard" advocated by Col. Louis McHenry Howe in the Satevepost last week. The Roosevelt-Cummings plan, as announced in the Press last week, called for 1) expansion of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation into a Division, staffed with expert criminologists and lawyers to cooperate with the states in tracking down kidnappers and racketeers. 2) The organization of a mobile detachment under Special Assistant Keenan to concentrate on kidnapping cases. 3) Legislation to stop the sale of firearms to gangsters and criminals. 4) Legislation asking the states to surrender their authority...
Doctor X. For reasons best known to himself, Dr. X, the criminologist, has assembled five total strangers who were once shipwrecked, it being his contention that the perpetrator of a shocking series of recent murders once experienced disaster at sea. Unfortunately, the good doctor neglects to include the real killer among his suspects. As a result, while the party is witnessing the re-enacting of the crime and being subjected to various guilt-detecting machines, quite a few people are slain. The play includes, of course, one lunatic, one scary maid, two lovers. Doctor X is not a first-rate...
...shocked correspondent of The Christian Century reported last week an interview on Manila's cinema with President Antonio C. Torres of the Manila municipal board (son of a supreme court justice of the Spanish regime). No prude but by hobby a criminologist, President Torres had declared: "70% of the present day crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life...