Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stupidity to be caught. Peter Krug informed the court: "It is not my intention to testify against Max Stephan. I have only to clear out the facts and tell the truth." Coldly, in a heavy guttural, he told the facts in detail. The jury took but 83 minutes to convict Max Stephan of treason, the first such conviction under Federal statute since the Whiskey Rebellion trials in 1795. Since the Government did not demand his death, Max Stephan will probably escape the hangman...
Under Canada's rigid wartime price-and-wage fixing, Vancouver was the first city to convict a restaurateur who upped prices and a landlord who jacked apartment rents. Last week Vancouver became the first city to fine a company for raising wages...
Because only six of the Dresser melodies (best: My Gal Sal, Wabash, The Convict and The Bird) were considered sufficiently undated, Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger turned out four new tunes. Any or all of them (Here You Are, Oh, The Pity Of It All, Me and My Fella, On The Great White Way) should be best-seller-bound...
...convict me," he told the court. "Indeed you must. . . . But you cannot deprive me of the satisfaction of having personified, for a moment at least, French faith in our civic liberty...
...than with furtive and somewhat successful attempts to pull the bedclothes over Will Hays' (and Lana's) eyes. Taylor tries awfully hard, which is more than can be said for Hays. He chases Lana around, in a bewildered plot which has something or other to do with a paroled convict using the District Attorney's daughter to get himself...