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Died. Colonel Charles R. Forbes, 74, Veterans' Bureau director under President Harding, who served one year, eight months and six days in Leavenworth for his part in swindling the government out of $225 million; after long illness; in Washington...
...based on Psychologist Donald Powell Wilson's 1951 bestseller about his prison experiences, comes to the screen accenting the corn instead of the criminology. The book was a sprightly account of a three-year research project into the relationship between drug addiction and criminality, which Wilson conducted at Leavenworth in the early '30s for the U.S. Public Health Service. It also told of the six convicts who assisted him-and who tested him as much as he tested them...
Early Career: during World War I, served at Army training posts, rising to lieut. colonel (temporary) in the tank corps; during the 19203, after reverting to his permanent rank of captain, he gradually rose to major; was No. i man in his class (1926) at the Fort Leavenworth Command & General Staff School; in 1932 stood by Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur during Washington's famed bonus march; in 1933 became MacArthur's aide; from 1935 to late 1939 served as MacArthur's right hand in the Philippines; learned also to fly a plane (300 air hours); distinguished...
Released from the Fort Leavenworth guardhouse after his two year stay, he was brought before a U.S. Court and sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary. Eight months later he was parolled...
...never done anything wrong. He has always been more than glad to do favors in a nice way," said Mother Clara Boyle last week as she reminisced about the family's beginnings. He and his twin brother Russell (now an Army colonel) were born in 1902 in Leavenworth, Kans., where their father was a broomcorn merchant. They were a devoutly lighthearted Irish Catholic family of five. The twins went to Cathedral School in Leavenworth, where a stern rule forbade the playing of mumblety peg on the front lawn. "Bill liked to have fun," said Clara Boyle, "but he always...