Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal alcohol tax unit arrested the chief of Charleston (S.C.) County's police and eight of his cops, charged them with convoying moonshine for friendly bootleggers, and engaging in the whole, sale sale of illicit whiskey themselves...
Clues. In Charleston, W.Va., Bessie Shaffer, reporting the theft of her car, observed that police would have no trouble recognizing it since it had no fenders, no doors, no headlights...
Easy Does It. In Charleston, S.C., Construction Superintendent Alfred J. Patrick, the first man to build a home last year on a new development's Easy Street, was indicted by a grand jury for using his company's employees and materials to help him live on Easy Street...
Barging into Charleston, W.Va. for his first big speech on behalf of Adlai Stevenson, the coal miners' John L. Lewis faced an unexpected and thoroughly embarrassing predicament. From Washington had just come news that the Wage Stabilization Board had cut the $1.90 daily-wage increase agreed upon by the mine operators and the United Mine Workers' soft coal diggers. WSB's ruling...
Last week the grand jury indicted 32 from Kanawha County for vote frauds, 18 Democrats and 14 Republicans. They ranged from ward heelers to the Republican mayor of Dunbar (pop. 8,032), who was charged with fraudulently adding to the votes cast for Charleston's Republican Mayor John T. Copenhaver in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Despite its victory, the Gazette thinks the battle not yet over. It plans to campaign to change the state laws so the vote frauds can't be repeated...