Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police into action, nearly stopped the illegal traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...
Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
...scenes into two acts is a necessary expedient. But there is also an annoying amount of expurgation of certain crudities which it might be thought that over three centuries had succeeded in mellowing. And in the crucial scene where Cassio is forced by the craft of Iago to convict himself before Othello in a completely misleading way, the clinching evidence of the handkerchief is in this performance somehow strangely omitted...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...
...into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining...