Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor cases a day. After a World War II stint in the Navy he got the job of chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, then headed by Michigan Republican Homer Ferguson. As a result of his committee work, Army General Benny Meyers was packed off to jail, and so was Five-Percenter John Maragon, in an investigation that unlocked the door to the Truman Administration scandals. He also opened the investigating book on the Commerce Department's William Remington, who was sent to jail for lying about passing secret information to Soviet Spy Elizabeth Bentley. So scrupulously...
...underworld. Some victims went into the Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial...
...actions in Hungary . . . accusing the overwhelming majority of the human race of wanting war . . . Here is the chronic lawbreaker, not only seeking to be regarded as a good citizen, but actually trying to sit in the judge's seat and sentence the whole law-abiding community to jail. Here is the arsonist, trying his best to start another fire, and demanding the right to lead the fire brigade...
John F. Correa III '58, of Wellesley Hills, was fined $1,000 and given a suspended jail sentence of one year today on charges arising from an accident which took the life of Robert Mason '58, also of Wellesley Hills, on the West Boston Bridge, Sept...
Though newsmen claim a classic right to protect their sources−and have gone to jail to do so−only twelve states* guarantee it by law, and the Federal Government has no such statute. Judge Sylvester Ryan warned attractive, hard-working Columnist Torre, 33, that she was risking a sentence of 30 days for contempt if she persisted. Sympathetically, the judge called her "the Joan of Arc of her profession." The Trib promptly staked her out on Page One in a blaze of pictures, plastered most of an inside page with sidebars, ran a fat lead editorial sounding...