Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstate New York. A state cop stumbled onto it almost by accident: he noticed droves of big black Cadillacs and Imperials pouring into town from all directions, traced them to the place where they converged, and barged in on 60 of the most senior statesmen in U.S. organized crime. On sight of a uniform, the hoods fled through the woods like so many Br'er Rabbits with Br'er Fox hot on their heels. A few of them have never since been seen in civilized society. Those who were nabbed told pretty much the same story. Each just...
...sands of time. Griffin aides and allies, including his brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
...indication of Arab-Israeli feelings, Lebanon's Parliament exploded in rage for 3½ hours last week at the conduct of Lebanon's foremost international statesman, U.N. General Assembly President Charles Malik. Malik's crime: he had stepped into the Israeli pavilion while touring an international trade fair at Manhattan's Coliseum, and actually sipped champagne with Israeli officials. "Shameful and treacherous," said Foreign Minister Hussein Oweini. "He should have died of thirst rather than drink Israeli champagne," cried Deputy Jean Aziz...
...Bank of Washington as well.) The concern of Congress and of the U.S. in 1959 is the gangsterism and brutality that infest the unions and threaten the working man. With oratory and belligerence out of the past, John L. Lewis was fighting for a cause already won, defending a crime against labor still unpunished...
...begs in the Dominican Republic. First offense draws six months on the work farm, the second offense a couple of years, the third, life imprisonment. "Either they work," said my guide, "or they don't eat." Nor is there much unofficial crime, petty thievery and such. What's the penalty? "The penalty, sir, is that you don't do it again...