Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist who lives in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, f Translated and completed with surprising fidelity to Trotsky...
...intoned Jester, reclining in a rine-backed loda. "Maybe we did something wicked. Do you think United Press will persecute us for it?" "perhaps not," mused a weeming twerple from the corner, "because I asked the gentleman by yonder lamp post and he said he didn't see a Crime...
...your reference to Caballero's "missing" son? He was Franco's prisoner. Franco offered to exchange him for a leader of the Falangist movement, in jail and coming up for trial on charge of treason to the Republic. Caballero refused. His son, Caballero said, had committed no crime...
Last week, gathering manpower for his campaign, he staged a staff raid on the Examiner. Hearstlings Edward W. McQuade, city editor; Alvin Hyman, top rewrite man, and Richard V. Hyer, legman specializing in crime reporting, walked out to go to work for Paul Smith's Chronicle. The rattled Examiner hastily scattered pay raises to keep the rest of its staff. But Smith boasted that his new recruits had not changed sides for money. "They simply are going to work for an honest newspaper," he cracked, "so they can live with themselves and their children...
Died. Colonel Albert Arnold Sprague, 69, wholesale grocer (Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp.), onetime "generalissimo" of Chicago's anti-crime committee, power behind Mayor Anton J. Cermak's short lived civic-reform drive (which ended in 1933 when Cermak was killed by an assassin's bullet intended for Franklin D. Roosevelt); in Chicago...