Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal. In an interim report based on 16,000 interviews by investigators, testimony by 486 witnesses at hearings and 17,485 transcript pages, a special Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan freely used such words as "plunder" and "hoodlums," "gangsters" and "thievery" and "collusion," and "crime against the community." Major finding: "Union funds in excess of $10 million were either stolen, embezzled or misused by union officials over a period of 15 years...
...CHIMP, 18, nephew of a "famous Brooklyn gangster," belongs to a gang that is largely Italian and Irish, was expelled from parochial school for bad conduct, was arrested once for larceny, will probably gravitate to the Brooklyn docks where, as he well knows, bigtime crime is rampant. "Sometimes guys come to work on the docks," he says. "They hope to make money, save it and get away and go into business. But they never make it. How can they? Where else can you earn that kind of dough...
...Amos 'n' Andy Music Hall. But on last week's anniversary show, they fondly conjured up the years when Amos 'n' Andy were going so strong that car thieves found easy pickings during the program, and defendants testified that at the time of the crime they naturally were at home listening to the show (and made the alibis stick under close questioning by judges who remembered the dialogue). Said Gosden: "We love what we're doing, and we plan to go on doing it for a long, long time...
...head of the art department took alarm, wrote to Ed's brother Hicks, an architect in Boston and 14 years Ed's senior: "This boy has divine talent. If you don't take him away from here and put him in school, it's a crime, and you're a wicked...
...girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that it reported plans for Press': trial, the Statesman ran a Page One account of a speech by Editor Green arguing "the right of jurors to be informed about details of a crime before the trial.' He also praised the jury system for pro viding a rebuttal to the "facile and super facial" charge of "trial in the newspapers...