Word: convictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Students. In Chicago, Mrs. Harriet Vienne and son, Albert, signed up to train for FBI jobs, soon learned enough to turn in their ex-convict instructor for impersonating a federal agent...
Graduation Exercise (Dec.). In Grand Rapids, Marjorie Baker, 13, married a 23-year-old ex-convict, explained why: "I just couldn't stand the thought of going through seventh grade again...
Graduation Exercise. In Grand Rapids, Marjorie Baker, 13, married a 23-year-old ex-convict, explained why: "I just couldn't stand the thought of going through seventh grade again...
...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
Hanratty had other troubles. He was jailed by Mounties on charges of forcible entry and obstructing the police, then was released without bail. He was confident that no Ottawa jury would convict him for finding houses for vets. Cried he: "The Government will find it has a tiger by the tail." Nevertheless, the week's events had cooled him. Evicted from his own home last week, he settled with his wife and two-months-old son in a Lansdowne hut. But he called Mayor Stanley Lewis first, got an O.K. before he moved...