Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Ethelbert Whitsitt, now Convict No. 34,234 in Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson, still has considerable time to serve. He got life for the murder, 45 to 90 years for the kidnapping. The judge said the sentences were to run concurrently. If he keeps out of trouble, and if, somehow, the life sentence should be commuted, Louis Whitsitt might be let out by 1950, or anyway...
Prison-pallid Dr. James Monroe Smith, convicted ex-president of Louisiana State University, hunched up in a jail bathtub at Baton Rouge, La., tried to commit bloody suicide by slashing his right foot. (It was his second attempt: last July, in the Federal House of Detention at New Orleans, he tried to have bichloride of mercury smuggled to him in an ice cream carton.) Two days later an ambulance carried off ineffectual Convict Smith to Angola State Penitentiary, to begin serving eight to 24 years for forgery...
...District Attorney William J. Campbell in Chicago "respectfully requested" Western Union, A. T. & T. and the telephone company's Illinois subsidiary to disconnect Nationwide's number. Unless they obeyed, they might be indicted as accessories in an illegal enterprise. Although Mr. Campbell has yet to convict indicted Publisher Annenberg of evading income taxes, illegal trafficking with gamblers, etc., the wire companies agreed to hang up on Annenberg services throughout the U. S. At that point a Federal judge persuaded Attorney Campbell to let the network stay in operation three more days while he heard arguments. This week thousands...
...Others (nonCommunists) who now aid Convict Beal: U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette's cousin Suzanne, Author Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia), Raleigh Editor Jonathan Daniels...
...said that the Committee had evidence to convict the League in court for failure to register as an agent of a foreign government. Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, admitted that the League was a Communist front organization, Dies said...