Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the news of his confession spread through Chinatown, the elders of the Huey clan sensed the crisis, met in a laundry on Leavenworth Street, decided to parade into Assistant U.S. Attorney James B. Schnake's office and ask for mercy...
...world moved toward World War II, Tommy White built up more professional qualifications, more professional regard. In the U.S. he graduated from Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala., the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. Kans. Abroad he served as an assistant air attache to Italy and Greece, as commander of a military air mission to Brazil (where he spoke Portuguese). Everywhere Tommy White went, from arctic Russia to Brazil, he went out fishing, collecting rare specimens, discoursing to his British wife Constance Millicent Rowe (his second) on the delights of ichthyology. White would catch...
...product of a poor family, the country's military academy, and the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he cracked down relentlessly on Communism, which he had learned to hate as a career officer. He had seen Communism spreading in Guatemala for ten years. For a plot to head off the rigged election of Arbenz in 1950, he faced a firing squad; luckily hit only in the left leg, he returned to prison, helped dig a 38-ft. tunnel under the walls, and escaped to begin the plot that took Guatemala. With...
...forbidding, grey Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a convict petitioned the Department of Justice for the removal from his chest of a tattoo vowing eternal devotion to "Mary"; he was about to be released and wanted to marry a girl with another name. Over the Rio Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered from their light plane in search of the Mexican wetbacks who would, if they could, slip across the border in illegal droves to work on U.S. ranches. In Tacoma, Wash, a federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes...
...deported from Guatemala for violating censorship in the civil war when Castillo Armas entered the city. Fortunately for reporters, Castillo Armas was an old friend: he had studied under Colonel-Instructor Dubois during World War II in the U.S. Army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth. Castillo Armas at once gave newsmen the run of the wires without censorship...