Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkers was not the four-to-eight-year sentence imposed on Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines for selling protection at $30,000 a year to the city's "numbers" racket.† More significant was a probation report published the same day. In detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses, a first-rate picture of how such bosses grow, what makes them tick, how they can go wrong...
...complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties, acted as informer to governments and Kings...
...tragedy was not ended. Instead of keeping the passengers in the stranded plane, Pilot Stead got them up on the slippery top of the fuselage. One by one they were washed off and drowned-all save Stead and an ex-convict. When he reached the bluff and safety in the dawn, the Douglas' cabin was still...
Last week in Honolulu, a court martial sentenced Ben Fleigelmann to five years of hard labor at Governors Island, N. Y. From that fortified dot in New York Harbor, Convict Fleigelmann will be able to see Brooklyn with ease...
...front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...