Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, after costing taxpayers $3,700,000,000, the 52-20 club lost its charter. Harry Truman and many governors-who did not want to dip into their state's own unemployment compensation funds-wanted 52-20 continued. But Congress failed to act before the law expired...
...kind of desperate intentness. He carried with him the Bible given him by his mother and read a chapter from it every day. He played football at the University of Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with the law...
Baby Sitter. With cops ratting on each other so fast, it was hard for an honest hood to decide which law to work with. A grand jury went to work. Mickey knew things were out of hand when State Attorney General Fred Howser sent a special agent to be his bodyguard...
Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...