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Cohn pointed to the arsenal of existing state and federal laws that could be used against illicit labor practices involving larceny, assault, bribery, conspiracy, and income tax underpayment. Vigilant officials could use exciting weapons effectively to curb labor excesses, he said, naming as an example the actions of Thomas Dewey when district attorney...
...Staggering Fine. In 1949 his luck wavered. Found guilty in Paris of speculation, tax evasion and "illicit profitmaking," Joanovici was sentenced to five years in prison and fined a staggering billion francs (roughly $3,000,000). After serving two years, he was let out but confined to the small southern city of Mende (pop. 7,700) in one of the most impoverished areas of France. Within months, Mende was a boom town. A telephone operator had to be hired whose sole job was handling Joanovici's calls to world capitals. His monthly phone bill ran to 600,000 francs...
...voluptuous feeling-illicit in the U.S., agreeable anywhere-that comes from possessing a bar of gold is now available to anyone for a down payment...
...Gaulle's triumph, conducted for the most part in discreet silences and behind the scenes, was nonetheless the climax of an epic political struggle. In Algeria, De Gaulle's first objective had always been to break the illicit power of the Committees of Public Safety-the hard-nosed, ruthless union of right-wing settlers and political colonels that sparked the Algiers insurrection of last May and prepared De Gaulle's way to power (TIME...
...Commie lawyers, Julio Viaggio and Rodolfo Alfaro, were waiting with writs of habeas corpus. "Aha, I can be a lawyer too," snapped the chief. Where was Professor Ferrari's boardinghouse permit? "This is against municipal law." With that, Ibañez closed Stella Maris, charged its tenants with illicit operations...