Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year's General Strike in San Francisco. The defense won a play when the Court agreed to have Convict Billings brought from Folsom Prison to San Francisco, so that he will face his one-time co-agitator when he gives his testimony. The pair have split because Billings will accept parole. Mooney will...
...with the evidence of their emotional disturbance. Used by 52 Chicago banks on their employes, the polygraph has turned up many a petty pilferer. Corroborative evidence based on the polygraph has been admitted four times in U. S. courts of law. Last year Governor Comstock of Michigan pardoned a convict who steadfastly denied the murder with which he was charged and successfully passed a polygraph test...
...Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff prepared to give it a new twist. In explicit advice...
...Capone is burning up at the restrictions. He's been in the hole [solitary confinement] several times for talking. But whoever the convict was that said Al was losing his mind over it was absolutely wrong. He's not cracking up. He worked first in the dry cleaning shop and then, I think, in the shoe shop. Now he's been promoted to the library...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...