Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hidden Documents. The U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator William Jenner, was immediately interested. The documents that Gouzenko carried with him when he fled helped convict eleven spies, including a Canadian M.P. and a British scientist, Allan Nunn May, and gave leads on some 400 other suspected Red operatives in the West. The Jenner committee, through the State Department, asked Canada to let its investigators talk to Gouzenko...
...that Truman was aware at least that he might be a spy. The controversy turns on whether Truman ought to have permitted his appointment to the International Monetary Fund. Truman's first assertion, that he retained White to allow the FBI to collect information enough to convict him is at best dubious, witness Hoover's testimony. Truman's further assertion, however, that he retained White to protect the FBI's extensive investigation then in progress seems much stronger...
Reduced Charge. In Los Angeles, jailed on suspicion of auto theft, ex-Convict Henry Segura swiped Cellmate Manuel Salazar's clothes and identification cards, paid Salazar's $25 fine for drunkenness and calmly walked out the front door...
...obvious purpose is not to convict the man on the stand but to use the testimony of the witness to find out about someone with whom he has been associated and whom he may be protecting under the pretext that he is protecting himself. An attorney general with the power that Brownell wants would have to choose carefully between suspected conspirators, lest big ones get away by testifying under immunity while less guilty associates are trapped by the testimony of the more guilty. But this task is not impossible. Said Brownell: "Almost every heinous crime on the law books, committed...
Hall next attached himself to John Hager, an ex-convict (bad checks) turned taxicab driver and pimp. When the kidnaper gave Hager an $18 tip, the cabbie was elated. "I knew I had a Good-Time Charl'e." he gloated. He took Hall to a hefty (176 Ibs.), blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel...