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...District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Disconnected? | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Others (nonCommunists) who now aid Convict Beal: U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette's cousin Suzanne, Author Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia), Raleigh Editor Jonathan Daniels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...said that the Committee had evidence to convict the League in court for failure to register as an agent of a foreign government. Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, admitted that the League was a Communist front organization, Dies said...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

...With the convict when he set out by automobile for Tattnall State Prison were his wife, his mother and two guards, one of whom the family had hired to watch him in the hospital. Near Summit, Ga., an hour's ride from Tattnall, Dick Gallogly and his bride left mother and guards on the roadside, fled in the car for a delayed honeymoon. Two and a half hours later the two guards reported that Dick Gallogly had pulled a gun, forced them to leave the car, ignored his mother's warning: "I think this is the most foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Honeymoon | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...READER Is WARNED-Carter Dickson-Morrow ($2). Inspector Masters, faced by two murders in an English country house, with no indications of the cause of death, turns to Sir Henry Merrivale again. A mind reader complicates the case by confessing crimes and challenging the law to convict him without scientific proof. Astute, baffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in August | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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