Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hacks or indigent relatives of Congressmen. Lately some of them have been publicly disgraced. In Washington, a Federal deputy marshal tried last autumn to fix a jury to help the Brothers Warring, rich operators of a numbers racket. In Kansas City, two deputy marshals escorting a prisoner from Fort Leavenworth to Chicago got drunk. Last week Thomas E. Ott, former chief deputy marshal of Washington, D. C., was arrested in Cleveland for embezzlements which brought his discharge last December...
...mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...
...time Cossack Mike Belan is trying to make a getaway from Leavenworth Penitentiary on horseback, pursued by his long-lost son (Leif Erikson), who has joined the U. S. cavalry and fallen in love with a Cossack singer (Frances Farmer), only cinemaddicts with phenomenal deductive powers will be able to keep track of the proceedings. Only unusually indulgent cinemaddicts will want to. Typical shot: Akim Tamiroff roaring at Leif Erikson in Cossack dialect while showing him how to take a Cossack Turkish bath...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
...Hamtramck's first mayor, Peter C. Jezewski, was sentenced to Leavenworth for conspiring to violate the Prohibition...