Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press had broadcast the Burns story: how he went to War, returned jobless, was convicted of a $5.85 grocery robbery in Atlanta, escaped once to set up a substantial business in Chicago, escaped the second time to write his cinematized book, I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang...
Prisoner Burns was born in Brooklyn 41 years ago. When War broke out he was an accountant. He enlisted in the 14th Engineers, served 21 months overseas. Home again, he found no work, drifted South. In Atlanta, one night in 1921, he and two flophouse companions held up and robbed a grocer of $5.80. Burns was sentenced to serve six-to-ten years in the Campbell County chain gang...
...Speakership even under favorable circumstances was Connecticut's gangling Tilson. When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...
...floor, a bullet from a .38 calibre pistol in his back, one hand over his face, the other clutching a bunch of keys. Just as no one had seen the stranger come aboard, no one saw him debark. Police investigation soon revealed that the Captain, a Pole interned at Atlanta during the War on suspicion of being a spy, had made a business of organizing bizarre junkets, soliciting junketeers through newspapers. He had been married three times. Only one bulkhead separated the dead man from his two sleeping children, Valerio, 7, and Nile, 6. His wife Aloha, young and comely...