Word: convictions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Pyari's family realized that there was not enough evidence to convict Gopal, they hired a brilliant lawyer and ordered him to manufacture the best evidence that money could buy. Then Gopal's family began to confect evidence for the defense. Both families finecombed their tenants and employes, singling out those whose lives depended upon their landlord's bounty, and ruthlessly training them as "witnesses." Others who yearned to stand in well with the British Raj or with the Congress Party were bribed with promises of political preferment. One clerk, who worked in the British magistrate...
...pack-jammed convict ships which once plied between Britain's jails and the prison pens of Botany Bay had nothing on the destroyer Yoizuki. She was a hell-ship to match the worst of them. Sailing from Sydney last week, the reconditioned 3,000-ton Jap warship had room for only about a third of the 1,005 homeward-bound Formosans, Filipinos and Jap P.O.W.s crammed aboard her. In the hot, fetid holds there was little air, no toilets and barely enough water...
Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...
...Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your Own Sweet Darling Wife, with which...
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...