Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indianapolis, newsmen discovered that one of the owners of the brewery was one Lawrence Bardin, an ex-convict (for falsifying beer labels) currently facing criminal charges of income-tax evasion; one of his lawyers is Joe Nunan. Next came the titillating news that when Bardin and his brothers bought the brewery in 1945, the deal was arranged by Frank McHale, Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana. And some of the capital, said one of the brothers, was put up by a bank headed by none other than Frank McKinney, Democratic National Chairman-who vigorously denied...
Duffy tore up the list of prison stool pigeons, and stripped convict politicians of their power. To the horror of his staff, he strolled, unarmed, into the prison yard and chatted with convicts. To their infinite surprise, he strolled out again. But, unlike many a reformer, he was too wise to confuse fairness with softness. Duffy kept...
...Faulty Pipeline. Subcommittee members wanted to know about all of Caudle's deals while McGrath was his boss. What about such things as the $5,000 commission Caudle got on an airplane bought by Larry Knohl, an ex-convict "investigator" for two shady machinery dealers who were defendants in a criminal tax case? McGrath said Caudle had assured him that no one in the transaction was involved in any Government case. Asked Wisconsin's Republican Representative John W. Byrnes: If another Assistant Attorney General asked you about taking a commission on an airplane, would you investigate the matter...
Then, one morning last week, the Prague radio announced that "hitherto unknown facts have come to light. They convict Slansky of activities against the state . . . He has been placed in custody...
Some people claim that it was clever strategy to pass this bill. They say that it will involve so much litigation to convict a person of belonging to "any group adjudged subversive by the attorney general" that convicting anyone not a genuine subversive would be next to impossible. This apology ignores the fact that the litigation is harmful in itself. Many liberals may be brought before the courts under this bill, and although none of them are Communists, they will suffer almost as much from the bad publicity as the convicted man will suffer from the $1000 fine and three...