Word: blackjack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
Behind the Woodpile. The six defendants protested that the boys were exaggerating. But under crossexamination, they conceded that most of the details were true. Guard Ramirez admitted he had used a blackjack. Guards Terry Quinn and Albert Allen admitted that they had dragged two boys behind a woodpile and taken turns lashing them with a fan belt. Even Superintendent Ridgway confessed he used the whip. "But none of the boys that I know of limped after they were whipped." Besides, said the defense, the law allows "reasonable corporal punishment," and Fort Grant is certainly reasonable...
Decoy. In Chicago, after an undercover man telephoned police headquarters to report that 40 men were playing poker and blackjack in a poolroom-saloon, Police Lieutenant George Mankowski raided the place with a flying squad, forgot to guard the rear exit, succeeded in nabbing only the undercover...
Street presented a moving scene. Sad-faced gamblers stood by as vans backed up and hauled away dice tables, roulette wheels and blackjack tables...
...guest appearances, sounded suspiciously like monopoly and restraint of trade. The plain implication: unless Hollywood relented, FCC would be forced to rule against movie producers' applications for new TV stations. Harry Brandt, the outraged president of the Independent Theater Owners Association, promptly charged that FCC was trying to "blackjack the motion-picture industry into committing hara-kiri...