Word: clink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After he had spent the summer in clink, Attorney General Biddle offered to turn Eldon Smith loose if he would go into the Army. Smith, feeling that he had somehow won, agreed. Observed...
...darker, danker corners of A.F. of L. For instance: "Umbrella Mike" Boyle. During the lush war years, Mike collected thousands of dollars in "insurance premiums" for guaranteeing that his Chicago electrical workers would not strike. He served two months (on a year's sentence) in the clink for conspiring to break the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. But last week he was still running the Chicago electrical workers...
...also put out a warrant for his arrest, on grounds of stealing documents "affecting the security of the French State." (They were really photostat copies of police reports on De Gaullist and Cormmunist activities in France, for which he had paid a young Hungarian journalist, now in a Vichy clink, about...
...hand of the law on his neck was no new experience for Willie Bioff, who only recently got out of the clink for his 20-year-old pandering conviction, and was already under another indictment for trying to evade payment of $85,000 in income taxes. Mr. Bioff wailed: "I never extorted a dime from anybody." Mr. Browne, never in jail himself, has had many another close friend there, including Nick Circella. Capone mobster. If convicted of extortion, Bioff and Browne face a maximum of 30 years in prison, fines of $30,000 each...
...nearly 30,000 regular officers in the pro fessional establishments include: Rear Admiral Felix Xerxes Gygax, Major Cyril Walter Martyr, Captain Andrew Hero 3rd, Ensign Strong Boozer, Lieut. Lee S. Pancake, Lieut. Jud F. Yoho, Lieut. Clarence Clapsaddle, Colonel Rollo Ditto, Cap tain Donald N. Wackwitz, Lieut. Theodore Clink-scales...