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...word of an arresting officer is sufficient evidence to convict a liquor store owner or barkeep of violation of the law. In most cases, the student involved is not arrested...
Scores of Communist leaders have been convicted under the Smith Act of 1940. To convict, the Government had to prove 1) that the accused willingly joined the Communist Party, 2) that he knew the party's practice and purpose, and 3) that the practice and purpose of the party were advocating and striving for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government...
...Outcast. In Moundsville, W.Va., a convict serving a twelve-month term in the state penitentiary sent out letters to his creditors back home: "I wish you would quit writing those dunning letters . . . They are very damaging to my social position here at the prison...
Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
When Baldwin's first P-D expose broke, contractors and honest union members flocked to him with more stories of how the rackets worked. He got one tip that an emissary for Lawrence Callanan, an ex-convict who ran the powerful A.F.L...