Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a sufficient number of criminal statutes on the books to convict those who are guilty of subversive activity; instead of loyalty oaths, to muzzle the growth and exchange of free opinion, what is needed is an understanding that those who foster and use undemocratic instruments such as loyalty oaths also foster an undemocratic society. Unless the use of such oaths and other similar practices are discontinued, freedom of thought and expression will be completely effacted, and Navy-sponsored snoopers and back fence peeping-toms will not be limited to the Harvard campus. Irwin Gostin...
...convict seiezed, N. H., with nearly $4,000 in small bills confessed last night to the three-day-old bludgeon slaying of a former employer in Cambridge, Mass., and agreed to return to Massachusetts...
...CRIME Convict's Dream
...Roofer Arnold Larson's jail sentence for drunken driving was postponed until he finished fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...
...plot opens with a bonny-faced convict (Kieron Moore) returning to the postcard hamlet of Kilwirra to clear himself of the robbery charges against him. In the process, he inadvertently proves all the other villagers dishonest. The philosophical implications of this gentle-paced idyl are sometimes furthered and sometimes obscured by the emotional didos of a ponderously melancholy siren (Christine Norden) and a fiercely spiritual little barmaid (Sheila Manahan...