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...stand. He told Joe: "I'm going to see that you get a new trial." But the State's Attorney's office did not agree. Joe got no new trial. Numbly, he kissed his wife and newborn son, became Convict 8356E, a lifer at Joliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Reward | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...Busy. In Joliet, 111., Beekeeper Helge Johnson was ordered by the city to round up every one of his little charges or risk being fined $10 for each stray. With three days to avoid a possible $4,000,000 fine, Beekeeper Johnson got busier than any of his 400,000 bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Also publisher in Illinois of the Aurora Beacon-News, Elgin Courier-News, Joliet Herald News, Springfield Illinois State Journal; for six terms (1911-23) an Illinois GOP Congressman, long a utilitycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Daily, Mckinnon Up | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Joliet, Ill., prison trusty Percy Campbell, whose job was to open and shut the prison gate, was hunted by police. He shut the gate from the outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...community near Joliet, Ill. known as Stern Park Gardens was rechristened Lidice last week, leading Paragrapher Howard Brubaker to remark in The New Yorker: "Thus the name which Nazis thought they had extinguished will be mispronounced for all time." As most Americans cheerfully began calling it Le-deese', the Czech Consulate in Chicago gave the Official pronunciation as Li-di-tseh. In Joliet they pronounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Hail Lidice | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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