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...Convict the Guilty. Eighteen months have elapsed since the young (28) cipher clerk, fed up with Communism, stuffed 100-odd secret documents inside his shirt and walked out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Farewell Appearance? | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...tired-looking overcoat, a cynical stare. He sharpened his camera eye on such famed stories as the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping-and hardened his stomach on raids on rural stills (the newsmen usually split the "take" with the dry squad). He got to know practically every cop, private eye, drunk, lawyer, convict and whore in the Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Flash Powder to Portable | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Quick Students. In Chicago, Mrs. Harriet Vienne and son, Albert, signed up to train for FBI jobs, soon learned enough to turn in their ex-convict instructor for impersonating a federal agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Graduation Exercise (Dec.). In Grand Rapids, Marjorie Baker, 13, married a 23-year-old ex-convict, explained why: "I just couldn't stand the thought of going through seventh grade again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Cougar in the Caucus Room | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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