Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Struik, indicted last Thursday by a Middlesex County Grand Jury, pleaded innocent in Superior Court Friday and was freed on $10,000 bail. Later, his lawyer hinted that political pressure had been brought on the District Attorney to get the indictment...
Struik, indicted last Thursday by a Middlesex County Grand Jury, pleaded innocent in Superior Court Friday and was freed on $10,000 ball. Later, his lawyer hinted that political pressure had been brought on the District Attorney to get the indictment...
...Pacific Coast League, bruised and spike-scarred from years of futile feuding with the major leagues, took the most drastic step since its founding in 1904. At a meeting in San Francisco last week, the League's club owners voted to serve an ultimatum on the majors: unless freed from the player draft, P.C.L. would go outlaw, i.e., declare itself an independent organization with status equal to the National and American Leagues...
...Freed, he went back to hatred. Last November the few remaining Nationalist fanatics (about 400) of Albizu's party unleashed an armed revolutionary coup timed with an attempt to assassinate President Truman. In all, 33 persons were killed before the rising was put down. "The law will fall on whoever is responsible for this tragedy," promised Puerto Rican Governor Muñoz Marín. That meant Albizu Campos. Last week, in a half-empty courtroom, Albizu was convicted on twelve charges of trying to overthrow the Puerto Rican government by force. Maximum penalty on each charge: ten years...
...free at eleven by the same master who owned and freed his mother, Johnson became an apprentice barber. At 21, he opened a shop of his own in Natchez and prospered. When he married, in 1835, he was a solid man of property, owner of four slaves and the most prosperous barbershop in town. That same year, he began to keep a shrewd and candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson...