Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first and foremost a politician. He doesn't hate the University, "and neither did my father. But the students make good reading for the voters. So, now and then I make a few speeches. Nothing to get excited about. Why, many's the student who's called me from jail in the middle of the night and whom I got out. And my father, don't forget, endowed a scholarship to send deserving boys through Harvard. No, what I'm out for is the vote. If the students help me get it, I'm willing...
...late Huey Pierce Long (d. 1935), it was only natural that memories of "the Kingfish" should crowd into the hotel room, given the victorious occasion and the company. Around Earl sat some of Huey's old associates: former Governor Richard W. Leche (rhymes with flesh), who went to jail in 1941 for mail fraud; Robert S. Maestri, mayor of a graft-ridden New Orleans for ten years, until ousted by a reform candidate in 1946; George Reyer, Maestri's police superintendent; and Abe L. Shushan, former president of the levee board, who also went to jail...
...prison guard. A few years later Hurbie's mother, who separated from his father when Hurbie was very small, shot her second husband to death. She got out of that one on self-defense, but when she killed her third husband, she drew a five-year jail term. Hurbie's brother Bethel is currently doing ten years for burglary, and Uncle Iwana Fairris is serving a life sentence as a habitual criminal. Peggy Ann Fry, Hurbie's girl friend, is in a West Virginia prison for transporting a stolen car across state lines. A few hours before...
Dinneen soon turned to crime. The story that made his name broke in 1934 when he and another newsman split a $5,000 reward for helping to solve a murder case for which two men were wrongly jailed. After the two suspects were freed and paid $2,500 each by the state for false imprisonment, one of them met Dinneen on the street. He remarked on the reporter's reward money and asked: "What did it cost you to get it?" "Nothing," said Dinneen. "Why?" The ex-suspect then told how he and his companion had been forced...
Beginner's Luck. In Lewistown, Pa., arrested for driving without a license, Hurley Treaster, 50, was sentenced to three to six months in jail after he proudly told police that he hadn't used one since...