Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as president of the gangster-ridden A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association, beefy, heavy-browed Joseph P. Ryan has been above the law, despite wholesale murder and wholesale theft on the New York piers, and his own grandly feudal way of handling union funds. But the New York Crime Commission's shocking expose of waterfront rackets hit Joe Ryan where it hurt: according to testimony at the hearing, he had dipped into the union till to buy himself Cadillacs, pay golf-club dues, cruise to Guatemala, pay insurance premiums and family funeral expenses. This week Joe Ryan...
Sack became an editor of The CRIMSON in 1948, and was appointed Radcliffe Bureau Chief in 1950--the only male 'Cliffe Bureau Chief in Crime history...
...Newshen May Craig was worried about the Government's huge surplus butter stores (TIME, April 6), and Ike indicated that he was worried too. He hoped that Congress would give him the responsibility for finding outlets for the butter before it spoils. It would be a crime to civilization and to ourselves, he added, to allow it to spoil. He couldn't imagine anything worse when people are hungry...
...Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...
...after we appeared before the Committee we are no longer considered qualified students by Mr. Sears. It seems as if our 'crime' was the assertion of the privilege contained in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution...