Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Michael S. Lira, one of the three survivors of the S-51, which was rammed by the City of Rome (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925, July 19, 1926); near Joliet, Ill., when a bus crashed into a concrete abutment...
...engaged in the practice of law in Chicago. . . . Mr. Morgan was interested in the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway, known as the Outer Belt Line of Chicago. . . . Having information which was not in possession of Mr. Morgan or his legal staff, I saw instantly that his plan would not work. 'You can't do that under the law,' I explained. 'I don't hire lawyers to tell me what I can't do,' was Mr. Morgan's [famed] report. 'I hire them to tell me how to do what I want them...
...Last week Murderer Leopold, incarcerated at Joliet Penitentiary, seemed in a fair way to stand trial for the murder last year of a prison warden by six convicts who, last week on the eve of being electrocuted, gained reprieve by crediting Murderer Leopold with their plan of escape...
...Joliet...
Last week in Joliet the jury announced its verdict . . . and soon six forms will dangle on the gallows unless they are saved by further legal delay or by Gov. Len Small, crook-pardoner...