Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told us you had to start the day right, with plenty of warm food in your stomach." Hailing Dwight D. Eisenhower as the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln, Watson told Sullivan that the U.S. is in better shape than in Watson's boyhood. Snorting at reports of growing crime and juvenile delinquency, Thomas Watson summed up some bright spots in a survey of U.S. life made for his own enlightenment: "More churches are being built now, every day, than ever before. Education is on the increase. Those are the important things...
...made more money out of the great Brink's robbery than any of the men who robbed Brink's is still at large-and still making money out of it. For the Boston Globe's Joseph F. Dinneen, 57, dean of New England crime reporters, the big heist got him a Globe column called "Brink's Notebook," a handful of magazine articles, a book (Anatomy of a Crime) and a movie sale (Six Bridges to Cross). Dinneen's estimated haul, before taxes: $150,000. Last week Dinneen was looking for more pay dirt...
...gang, took the pea jackets, caps, false faces and about $100,000 in new and traceable currency away to burn, and the others dispersed (McGinnis, the gang treasurer, had spent the evening in a restaurant, talking to a detective and establishing a foolproof alibi). Two months after the crime, police found the remains of the truck, carefully minced by an acetylene torch and buried in a dump near O'Keefe's home...
...Keefe, were already in jail, one was dead of natural causes, and the remaining two were still at large). O'Keefe's story was no surprise to the FBI and police. For five years they have been frustratingly familiar with many of the details of the crime, and all but one of the eleven gang members (Fugitive James Ignatius Flaherty, 44, a bartender, burglar and escape artist) have been primary suspects. In 1953 a federal grand jury refused to indict the ten for lack of legally admissible evidence. A year later Joseph F. Dineen, 57, a veteran Boston...
...fact, Williams went on to attempt to make his crime more profitable by selling the books he had stolen back to their rightful owner, Widener Library. But this time the University Police, armed with specific evidence, made a quick arrest...