Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the first half of the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship at the Hotel Con-course Plaza in New York City yesterday...
Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...
Similarly, in Elgin, 111. an ex-con and Capone mobster named Rocco Pranno decided to cut himself in on the jukebox operations of young Ralph Kelly. To persuade Kelly of the wisdom of hiring him as "business adviser," Pranno drove him through the countryside with cement weights tied to Kelly's legs, threatening to drop him over a bridge. Committee investigators reported that Kelly's annual jukebox profit before Pranno was $16,000; afterward it dropped...
...tell the U.S. defense story. All of this dismayed Congressman John E. Moss's Subcommittee on Government Information. A repeated witness before this and the House Armed Services Committee, Snyder has been accused of "capricious censorship" and of a tendency to suppress information not only for security con siderations but for reasons of "policy" and even of "timeliness...
Last week as the case neared trial, crew-cut Emmett Watson. 40, made himself look even worse. He admitted that he "dressed up" a story he heard about how "an ex-con up for burglary was now installing burglar-alarm systems"; he could not explain why he wrote about three ex-cons instead of one. Ordered in superior court to identify the item's source, Watson would say only that he got it from "a prominent, respected law officer." He claimed no constitutional right, but refused to give the source's name because to betray a source would...