Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...culprit redhanded. In his pocket were torn pieces of a letter and three marked $1 bills which they had mailed as bait. He was small. meek William Buckly, 57 and father of four, a $1,500-a-year file clerk in the White House mail room. Off to jail he went for six months...
...patronage received from $500 to $1,000 per week from the policy racketeers-headed first by the late "Dutch" Schultz, since his death by that gangster's slick lawyer, "Dixie" Davis-as the price for providing political influence (with police, judges, etc.) to keep the racketeers out of jail...
...Dewey has convicted all but one of his racket indictees. Should he jail elusive Jimmy Hines, it may be hard to keep New York Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well...
Escaping the jail sentences recommended by Police Chief Leahy, three Tech rioters were fined $15 each yesterday, and three more had their cases filed when they were found guilty in East Cambridge Court of having disturbed the peace Monday night...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...