Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be isolated from corrupting influences and drilled in the virtues of hard work and obedience. Keeping inmates untainted meant keeping them apart from one another as well as from society as a whole. Accordingly, under Pennsylvania's penal system, prisoners not only worked alone, but each new convict was kept hooded until safely in his own cell. Walls and air vents were often designed to prevent communication, and prison architecture was elevated to one of the "moral sciences...
...harder than William Loeb, archconservative publisher of the coincidentally titled Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, which once received a $2,000,000 loan from the Teamsters' pension fund. Only last month the Union Leader broke a murky story that Edward Partin, the Louisiana Teamster whose testimony helped convict Hoffa of jury tampering, had repudiated what he said in court. But there has been no confirmation of the story from either the Justice Department or Partin...
...colleagues for financial misdeeds; of a heart attack; in Old Lyme, Conn. Before scandal ruined his career, the Connecticut Democrat had a reputation as a tough, responsible prosecutor and investigator. He served a brief tour as an FBI agent after earning a law degree at Yale, later helped convict Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. In 1958, Dodd won the first of his two Senate terms and soon zeroed in on subversives from his post on the Internal Security Subcommittee. He was a longtime champion of gun-control legislation and Senate sponsor of the 1968 gun-control bill, as well...
...petition states that Congress is given power in the Constitution to impeach and subsequently convict (both by two-thirds vote) the President for "high crimes and misdemeanors...
...When ex-Convict James A. White settled down at his pal Harvey Jackson's house, the talk often centered on White's drug-pushing activity. Jackson was an attentive listener. So were two federal agents, one hidden in Jackson's kitchen closet, the other outside his home in Chicago...