Word: convict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state legislators were handsomely increased, and the system was broadened to make anyone who had ever served in the legislature eligible for a pension based on his highest salary in public office. No. 1 beneficiary: Democrat James M. Curley, now 77, former governor, former mayor of Boston, and ex-convict (five months for mail fraud). Curley, who served in the state legislature in 1902-03, is eligible for a $1,000-monthly pension under the new law. ¶Retroactive payments, amounting to thousands of dollars, will go to statehouse employees, some earning as much as $13,000 a year...
...Chiang's excellently trained divisions in Korea. As it has done again & again in the past when this suggestion has been made, the State Department refused to consider it and turned away with the air of an old lady who has been asked to take tea with a convict...
...Post exploit equaled its exposure of Charles Ponzi, the foreign-exchange juggler of 1920 whose glib tongue talked Bostonians out of millions. City Editor Eddie Dunn, who got his facts from Ponzi's disgruntled pressagent, scooped the city with the news that Ponzi was actually a Canadian ex-convict. His story pricked the bubble and started Ponzi to jail...
This Way Out. In Dennison, Ohio, Convict William Kimble, 26, told police who rearrested him that he knew nothing about any escape plot until "I saw a line of guys at the window and got in line myself...
...down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led Galveston citizens in keeping order after the 1900 hurricane. Said a longtime friend and Texas judge: "If ever saber rattling passes from the earth, it will...