Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also among Garsson's friends: an ex-convict named Benjamin Franklin Fields, who had blossomed prosperously as a Washington public relations man. Fields was accused by Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, a Mead Committee member as having offered him $5,000 (as a campaign contribution) to soft-pedal the Garsson case...
...deputy sheriff opened the jail door, and told Roger that Mister Loy Harrison was there to fetch him. Roger's sister-in-law and her husband George Dorsey, just discharged after service overseas with the Army, both worked on Harrison's farm. At their urging ex-convict (bootlegging) Harrison had put up $600 bail to free Roger; the Dorseys and Roger's wife Dorothy were all waiting outside in the car. Mister Harrison would take care of everything...
Politician Truman made no bones about how deeply he had intervened in his home territory's primary fight. Yes, he had talked it over with Kansas City's Democratic Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew and heir of Harry Truman's political mentor and sometime convict, the late Tom Pendergast). Yes, he had encouraged Jim Pendergast to throw his organization's support to one of Slaughter's two opponents: a politically unknown, young (37) lawyer named Axtell...
There was almost no substantiation of Kennedy's accusations. But there was none either, for Nikolai Redin's denials in his halting, faulty English. Yet the American judge had warned the jury it must find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt before it could convict Redin...
...Seat. In Paris, twice-escaped convict Matthew Spence went to the movies, sat down on a criminal investigation agent's lap, promptly went back in the clink...