Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take the Stand." One by one, Investigator Seabury helped toss the rascals out -to Jimmy Walker's dismay. "This fellow," cried the mayor, "would convict the Twelve Apostles if he could." But Seabury, authorized by a state legislative committee to pursue his investigations, was now ready to tackle James J. Walker himself. And the day finally came in the dusty old courtroom in the New York County Courthouse when Samuel Seabury said quietly: "Mr. Mayor, would you be good enough to take the stand...
...courage in taking the case: "Nay, it is more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...
...Punta Galera, 100 miles from the Colombia border, the young convict embraced the Herveys, kissed their hands in gratitude, then rode ashore with his friends and their loot in Valinda's launch. When they were gone, the yacht headed north to Panama. By week's end, Isabela's commandant reported that order had been restored. And, on the Ecuadorian mainland, ten of the Valinda's fugitive passengers were rounded...
Look at the Facts. Previous efforts to convict RCA have had little luck, and a grand jury investigation of RCA affairs was quashed in 1952 by Democratic Attorney General James P. McGranery. But Republican Attorney General William Rogers' decision to go after RCA with a criminal indictment was undoubtedly encouraged by RCA's $10 million out-of-court settlement with Zenith, when it got a look at the facts Zenith had collected to support its charges of monopoly...