Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contrary to expectation, the right of Democrat Dr. Rudolph G. Tenerowicz of Hamtramck, Mich., onetime convict (TIME, Nov. 28, et ante) to a seat was not challenged. No seat was challenged...
...seems that the ex-convict Philip Musica, alias Coster, who is thought to have looted McKesson & Robbins of several millions, is listed in Who's Who, with an entirely fictitious record including two college degrees. Do the editors of Who's Who make no check on the veracity of the facts in their volume ? Some energetic young reporter may find that their venerable volume has a lot of skeletons between its covers...
...ballroom. The first eight feet of the ballroom was crammed with the stag line of surplus young men. These young men varied enormously. Mass observation showed that only one in 20 wore hair lotion and that about one in ten had his hair cropped like a convict. The editor of the Tailor and Cutter would have burst into tears over the cut of the tails. Actually two of the men were in dinner jackets. The girls . . . were mostly small and often pretty, could be divided into two lots: those that danced seraphically with their eyes closed, in the middle...
Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...Chicago, District Attorney William J. Campbell reported that Al Capone, due to be released from Alcatraz Island Penitentiary next month, was suffering from paresis, was out of his head one week in four. Meanwhile Convict Capone was presented with a bill for $57,692.29 from the U. S. Government. The bill was for: 1) a $50,000 fine, 2) $7,692.29 court costs of his income-tax evasion case...