Word: gilligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police lieutenant, off duty and in civilian clothes, heard the ruckus, flashed his badge, ordered the youngsters to quiet down. He was Thomas Gilligan, 36, a 6-ft., 200-lb. veteran of 16 years on the force and the holder of 19 citations, including several awards for disarming dangerous suspects. According to the police report, the Powell boy went after Gilligan with a knife. Gilligan ordered him to stop, but Powell kept coming. Then, "in defense of himself," Gilligan fired his revolver three times. The third shot went wild-but the first two killed...
...Police and student versions of the shooting varied sharply, but all agreed that a white building superintendent had sprayed water on Powell and two other Negro youths while hosing an area in front of the building. The youths chased the superintendent into the building. When Powell emerged, Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan, 36, came out of a nearby radio shop, fired three shots at Powell. Police claim that Powell had attacked Gilligan, who holds 19 citations for meritorious police work, with a knife and had disregarded the officer's warning to surrender. Negro witnesses claimed that Powell had no knife...
...series of brawls in the Falmouth-Hyannis area of Cape Cod, Mass., in which 160 young people were arrested -among them James Collins, 19, from Wethersfield, Conn., on charges of killing Stephen Gilligan of Newton, Mass, (whom he had never seen before) by hitting him so hard with a table leg that pieces of it penetrated his skull...
Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests-as well as her two husbands-died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial and was found guilty of murder in one specific instance, but whose sentence was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment in 1919; in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, to which she was committed in 1924 as insane...
Brokers are forbidden to deal in stocks unregistered with SEC. But in one instance, Partner James Gilligan (who retired last April) deposited 4,700 unregistered shares of Guild Films Co. stock out of the block of 63,000 he had purchased into the account of Reilly, then head of the Floor Transactions Committee. "Upon learning of the purchase," SEC said, "Reilly immediately sold the stock at a profit of approximately $2,300." Six months later, Reilly's committee refused to punish Gilligan for dealing in the stock...