Word: alcatraz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear day you can see Alcatraz...
...Capone, freed after seven years and six months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of Dr. Joseph E. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine instructor in syphilology...
Last January his family paid $37,692 of the fine and his penitentiary term in Alcatraz was declared at an end. At Terminal Island he served out his jail sentence, paid the balance of his fine, and good behavior there entitled him to final release this month...
...practice ever since he started to run for office to defend him when I thought he was right (and I submit that nobody ever defended him better), and to criticize him when I think he is wrong. ... I will continue to do that until they put me in Alcatraz...
...them, issued a list of ten most wanted, most dangerous criminals. Tom Dewey's Leopard, whom he had built up as No. 1, appeared only as No. 4. Ahead of him came Irving Charles Chapman, Texas bank robber, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe* bank robbers, who escaped from Alcatraz two years ago. No. 5 was Paul Cretzer, 29, another bank robber...