Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alibi...
Outside. Italy promptly tried to establish an alibi, claimed that the officers were not Italian, that the planes were private. The Savoia-Marchetti factory is an Italian Government factory. Il Duce, to whom no sin is greater than getting caught, demanded "an investigation...
...syndicate's bondsmen. The madam had to put up half the girl's bail, usually $300 to $500, did not get it back if the girl was acquitted. Arrested girls were taken to the ring's lawyer, a disbarred attorney named Karp, coached in an alibi. Eight out of ten appeared in court, were freed on their stories. Those who seemed sure to be convicted were told to "take it on the lam" (disappear temporarily) and their bail was forfeited. "We have identified," cried Prosecutor Dewey, "some 170-odd arrests for prostitution in 1935 in which...
Eleven days later New York's police methodically traced a piece of twine found near Mrs. Titterton's body to the shop where Fiorenza worked. A thrice-convicted thief, Fiorenza had been late for work Good Friday morning, could establish no alibi. When he was indicted for murder, all New York papers except one dropped the Titterton case off the front page...
...stale as his marriage, he hasn't the remotest idea of going through the mess of a divorce. . . . Nine times out of ten a man clings to his wife with both hands and wouldn't part with her for the world, because she is his perpetual alibi...