Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party-loving wife, Thelma. The Doc had been speculating in millions of bushels of wheat and had invented a unique system of financing. Whenever his broker called for more collateral, he merely ordered the printing of more L.S.U. bonds. He was discovered in Canada, brought home, and clapped into jail...
More important than all these considerations, Truman had done Boston's ex-convict Mayor James M. Curley a favor. Curley had been nursing a grudge ever since Truman let him spend five months in jail before commuting his sentence. Dever was Curley's man. With Tobin out of the race, Dever was assured of nomination, and Jim Curley, thanks to Harry Truman, was given a free hand in Massachusetts Democratic politics...
Handsome, fire-eating Ernesto Enrique Sammartino, 46, was a charter member of the anti-Perón club. In 1940, the Colonels' Clique tossed him into jail for his outspoken opposition. Last year, back in Congress, he called for a non-violent "civil insurrection." The President paid little attention, but dapper Ernesto included Eva Duarte de Perón in his attacks, and she does not take such things lightly...
Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher...
...killing people forever." It is likely that some changes will be made. For Columnist Deutsch, who never studied medicine, is nevertheless a power in U.S. medical journalism. In 1945, when he launched a one-man attack on the medical setup of the Veterans Administration, he almost went to jail. He refused to name his news sources for a series of 50 articles (13 of them containing constructive suggestions, a fair Deutsch percentage) and was voted in contempt of Congress by the House Veterans Committee. But the committee backed down and Deutsch saw many of his suggestions adopted when General Omar...