Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year old ex-convict, who claims not only to have burglarized University dormitories but also to have slept in the rooms of their absent occupants, was arrested yesterday morning while leaving Mellon Hall in the Business School...
Police believed that the intruder was an ex-convict formerly held in Charles-town Prison and the Concord Reformatory. They detained him on suspicion of larcency while attempting to link him with a series of similar thefts from unlocked rooms at Harvard and M.I.T...
...train, Madge took poison. She died 29 days later-mostly because Grand Dragon Stephenson, instead of getting the medical aid she begged for, held her prisoner for hours more. (Boasted he to a henchman: "This takes guts to do this, Gentry. She is dying.") Last week. Convict Stephenson, summoned to hear the decision, got his second chance (he was paroled in 1950, hauled back to prison shortly for lamming to Minnesota). Mumbled the Grand Dragon, long shorn of power, women, and his purple and gold vestments: "Thank you very much...
...Peace & Relaxation." In one cable Communist Chou angrily denounced the U.S. for "seizing" Formosa and "manufacturing" a mutual-security treaty with the Nationalists there (TIME, Dec. 13). "To convict foreign spies caught in China is China's internal affair," he said coldly. "There is no justification at all for the United Nations to try to interfere. . . No amount of clamor on the part of the U.S. can shake China's just stand of exercising its own sovereign rights...
...served three years, eight months and five days of a five-year sentence for perjury (for denying that he had turned secret documents over to the Communists while in the State Department), could scarcely find much consolation in the warden's parting words. When, as ex-Convict 19137, he walks out of Lewisburg's gate two days after Thanksgiving Day, Lawyer Hiss will greet the world as a convicted felon, practically broke, disbarred in all courts, stripped of nearly all ordinary civil rights...