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Boston reacted to this appointment with monumental indifference. Two weeks later Jim Curley found a job for another ex-convict. This time it was a ruddy, amiable lawyer (once suspended) named Charles H. McGlue, who had been a Curley campaign manager, state Democratic chairman and head of the state Ballot Law Commission, which irons out ballot disputes. In 1939, McGlue had been convicted of federal income-tax evasion, spent five months in jail. Curley decided that McGlue was just the man to be assistant chief of the city's licensing division (at a modest...
Four hours later, as Robert Best stood with his hands clasped behind him, the jury pronounced him guilty. Louise Best threw an arm around her brother's shoulder. "Don't worry about me, madame," he said. "You are now the sister of a convict." His sentence could be as low as five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, or as high as death...
Boston's popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...
...identified as a 37-year-old ex-convict, is one of three missing gunmen, the only participants in the January 9 robbery not yet rounded up, police disclosed. Apparently suspicious at the sight of patrol cars cruising in his area, the suspect dashed to his garage and escaped the police net in a tan automobile bearing Florida plates...
Police believe that the ex-convict had recently returned from Florida after seeing Anthony Novicki, the Dedham trigger-man in the holdup, who was arrested in Miami Tuesday. Miami authorities alleged that the Tilley couple of Boston, also arraigned Tuesday, had flown to Florida bearing funds to bolster Novicki's spotty finances...