Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, ex-Convict James Michael Curley, former mayor, Congressman and governor, made a halfhearted effort to come back to another term as mayor. Respected Mayor John B. Hynes buried Curley under the biggest plurality in the history of Boston mayoralty elections. Candidates of the New Boston Committee, a nonpartisan reform organization, won five of nine seats on the city council, four of five on the school committee...
...rejecting these counts, therefore, the jury hinted that it didn't believe Duane's testimony--at least not enough to convict...
Career Man. In Sydney, Australia, cops charged Robert Clifford, 39, with getting jobs at four different firms, then putting in anonymous telephone calls to notify the employers that their new man was an untrustworthy ex-convict, and collecting from each the week's pay required...
Boston voters also gave a 31,000-vote majority to Mayor John B. Hynes over Boston's former mayor and political boss, Ex-Convict James Michael Curley...
...sheriff's office intercepted a letter which advised two prisoners charged with passing a phony check: "Smear your face with rosewater, roots and salt. Then cut open a beef tongue and write the names of opposition witnesses inside and bury it, and no judge will dare to convict...