Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its Hollywood flourishes, Mission to Moscow has power. Even its most one-sided re-enactments of history, such as the Moscow "purge" trials (which uncompromisingly convict Trotsky of collaboration with Germany and Japan to destroy the U.S.S.R.), carry authority...
Vanishing American. In Deer Lodge, Mont., state prison guards hunted for an Indian convict, James Comes at Night, who went at night...
...started criminal action against black markets wherever they could be found. Also California prison officials got State permission to graze cattle in Palomar State Park, the meat to go to Folsom, San Quentin and Chino prisons. Quipped the Los Angeles Times: "How to obtain plenty of meat-become a convict...
Year ago, the Supreme Court had refused to convict members of the Teamsters Union who stopped out-of-state trucks entering New York City and. compelled the truckers to hire a New York union driver or pay his fee. Sam Hobbs had promptly drawn a bill broadening the legal definitions of "robbery" and "extortion." Labor unions were not mentioned by name but the effect was to outlaw truck-stopping by the teamsters and any similar practices by other unions. Labor leaders protested the bill would do more-outlaw legitimate activities by unions. The bill died with the 77th Congress...
...York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends was Mayor LaGuardia...