Word: duskin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...