Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby of the family. He never killed anyone, but that wasn't because his mother Kate Barker didn't teach him well. It was just that the Federals got him first-in 1921, for a mail stickup in Baxter Springs, Kans. They put him away in Leavenworth for 25 years...
When he heard about it on the radio in Leavenworth, Lloyd scrawled in self-pity: "I have no more mother and brothers for them to murder." He was wrong: brother Doc got a bullet in the head four years later trying to crash out of Alcatraz...
Forgotten Warning. By then Lloyd had served his time in Leavenworth and was trying to go straight. He finally wound up in Denver as the assistant manager of Charlie Klein's restaurant...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...chairs. Nothing to lock up except the cash drawer, and I wouldn't do that except you're supposed to." During the war, though, Marshall Pass had a brush with the enemy. Said Gus: "I don't like to mention his name. He's in Leavenworth now. He was up there, and well, I could see he wasn't doing what he said he was doing. Never mind, I just knew. I turned him in to the government man, and the FBI came around and found he had a short wave radio and was sending...