Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Charles C. Cabot, former president of the Alumni Association, will chairman a special state crime commission by appointment of Gov. Christian Herter...
...crime commission was created last July and includes on its board two senators and three representatives. The commission, with $10,000 for the probe, has sweeping powers to summon witnesses and must report to the legislature by next March...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
...Hughes, 45, assistant city editor of the Los Angeles Mirror (circ. 188,453), is a cigar-chewing, tough-talking newsman who never got to high school. But in 23 years of covering the police beat for Los Angeles papers he has earned his own graduate degrees in crime and criminals. He mixes on such familiar terms with the underworld that the front-door of his apartment has a one-way mirror in it so that Hughes can see who is coming without the visitor's seeing him; on "tough" stories he often carries a .38 revolver, just in case...
...came to the Mirror to ask help in getting a driver's license so that he could work as a truck driver. Hughes got him the license, from then on frequently got calls from Johnson. "He was a mixed-up guy," says Hughes, "who has been in crime ever since he was a kid. He likes to talk and I like to sit back and listen." Two months ago, Johnson stopped calling after police started looking for him as a suspect in the strangulation murder in a Los Angeles suburb of one Richard Fagner, who had befriended Johnson...