Word: convict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven years Red Ryan was Kingston Penitentiary's model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Prison reform societies hailed him, Premier Richard Bedford Bennett went to see him, emerged deeply moved. Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities...
Roaring up to Cleveland with his prisoner. Director Hoover made the announcement. Back in Washington he called in newshawks, gave them details of the capture. As excited reporters were ready to rush away toward telephones, someone asked when the Bureau expected to catch William Mahan, scar-faced ex-convict who last June got $200,000 by kidnapping 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser at Tacoma, Wash. (TIME, June 3, et seg.). "Oh, by the way," smiled Director Hoover, "I almost forgot to tell you. We picked up Mahan in San Francisco at 12:30 this noon." Forty-eight hours after being...
...year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused in Wall Street before its collapse. He had, he discovered, caused a legal battle which would make U. S. banking history whatever the outcome...
...Senators drifted in & out of the Senate Chamber, word went around that the division was going to be close, that a bitter debate was in progress. Senator Borah was credited with making a vigorous speech in favor of conviction. There was a highly involved constitutional debate. Judge Ritter of Florida was a Republican appointed by Calvin Coolidge. Republican Senator Austin of Vermont pointed out that the Constitution says, ". . . all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed...
...third and fourth counts, in which Judge Ritter was charged with practicing law while on the bench, fell even shorter of the necessary two-thirds majority to convict. The fifth count, a charge of failure to report for income tax various sums received, actually produced a majority for acquittal. Still Judge Ritter did not move a muscle...