Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Front Line. In Chicago, United Industrial Workers of America Local 286 President Angelo Inciso, an ex-convict under indictment for mismanagement of $420,267 worth of union funds, hired as the Local's "ethical practices director" a retired police captain who commented: "This is strictly a new venture...
JOHN GRAHAM, CONVICT (129 pp.)-Robert Gibbings-A. S. Barnes...
That is how one lag (longterm convict) apostrophized Australia in the early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with...
...Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush, preferring (he thought) life among savages...
Spelling It Out. In Walla Walla, Wash., a convict in the state penitentiary ripped open his package of three hollowed-out religious books, found, instead of an expected 3,000 Benzedrine-type pills, a note from the warden informing "to whom it may concern" that pill smuggling in the prison had been discovered...