Word: malefactors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wrest Coast harvest fields, drove a tractor on a cinema studio lot, organized magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption, but not enough disquieted to put a stop...
...impossible. Medical societies have been shown photographs of faces completely altered by plastic surgery. Year ago Dr. Carleton Simon, Manhattan criminologist, proposed an identification system based on the pattern of blood vessels in the eye, which is never the same in any two individuals (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). A malefactor would not be able to beat this system, Dr. Simon pointed out, unless he blinded himself. Last week two Iowa State University psychologists suggested yet another system, not infallible but good in the majority of cases, which a criminal could not beat unless he decapitated himself...
...bondholders. That, said the Court, was not a question of regulating the value of money but of the Government's keeping its promises. In short, Government bondholders have now the right but no legal opportunity to collect, and morally the Government is no better than a malefactor who takes refuge behind a legal technicality-in this case the right not to be sued without its own consent. No pretty position is this for any government to be in. It posed a problem in New Deal morals...
...remarkably late hour last night, the steamroller had not been towed away, neither had the malefactor presented himself to the indignant Colonel. However, the alert student body had begun to suspect that the deed was but a prank on the part of one of Harvard's inveterate wags...
...every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have them all beheaded with a sword, which he sharpens before their eyes. After they have confessed their misdeeds, mild-mannered Ezekiel lets them go. He decides the cigaret girl will make a satisfactory wife and that he does not need...