Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piled up in World War I, Warren Harding was the first President to win the right to revise, reduce or increase budget estimates from the departments. (Under the 1921 act, the penalty for the agency head who bypasses the Budget Bureau is a $500 fine and/or one year in jail.) The director was clearly intended to be the President's man, because Congress did not even require Senate confirmation of his appointment...
Late one night last week, a slight, balding man with a hawklike nose, wearing a sharp gabardine suit and the air of an English butler, emerged from the jailer's office at the East Cambridge, Mass, jail and barked, "Gimme an aspirin, will you?" He was Joseph James ("Specs") O'Keefe, 47, and he had been talking almost continuously for three days. Outside, on the streets of Boston and all over the U.S., newspapers repeated Specs' story in huge headlines and minute detail; after six years, the $2,775,395 Brink's Inc. robbery, the largest...
...When he threatened reprisals, he was shot at twice in the streets of Dorchester. Then Bookie John H. Carlson, a close friend and confidant of O'Keefe's, suddenly vanished-apparently the victim of a "ride." Sixteen months ago Specs O'Keefe went back to jail in Springfield for gun-carrying and violation of parole. Brooding there last week, he decided to sing...
Late Communiqué. With Big Joe out on the Romany road, frustrated Magistrate Murtagh was forced to content him self with ordering Adams and Lee to pay half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised...
...Legal Mind. In Munich, after he was sentenced to a three-day jail term or a 15-mark ($4.70) fine in 1952 for illegal fishing, Robert Adler spent a day in jail and then disappeared, got picked up by the Russians and shipped to Vorkuta slave labor camp for three years, was collared by Berlin authorities when he finally returned, forced to pay the 10-mark balance of his fine...