Word: swears
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...simple matter to raise the cry of "crime wave!" A murder story on the front page of a morning paper becomes an especially desperate and cold-blooded affair. The private citizen, who knows little about the matter, is ready to swear that the country is suddenly engulfed in crime. As a matter of fact there has always been excessive crime in the United States; the wave in a thing of permanency. New York in 1915 had 838 robberies, enough to supply over two sensations a day under 1921 publicity. Chicago had twenty more murders in 1916, New York almost double...