Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political activities were interrupted by the Department of Justice, which found that Lawyer Holt and the Howard County sheriff had organized a "Hoosier Protective Association" which assessed local bootleggers $3 a week in return for legal aid if and when they got into trouble. Mr. Holt was sent to Leavenworth in 1931 for 18 months, got out in seven. Indomitable Mr. Holt promptly went in for politics again, put himself up for Mayor last month and carried 30 of Kokomo's 33 election districts...
...tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...
...that Runaway Frank Nash was taken prisoner in Hot Springs, Ark., his friends got in touch with a gangster in Kansas City named Verne C. Miller and enlisted his help in a plan to free Nash on his way back to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Miller went to Assistant Boss John Lazia for help. Genial, bespectacled Lazia was sorry, but he made it a point never to involve his own men in outside affairs. However, he knew two very good outsiders who were in Kansas City at the moment - Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd and Adam Richetti. Next morning...
...charge of Military Science 3 and 4, was a letterman at Norwich University, graduating in 1916, serving in the Third Division Field Artillery overseas where he was promoted form lieutenant to captain. He holds the Distinguished Service Cross. Before coming to Harvard he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas...
...positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International Business Machine has announced the addition to its line of an automatic letter filing case, developed to meet the needs of public utility holding companies. This file...