Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chalked up debts some $500,000 in excess of his income. Last week the Nizam called a halt: Azam's 23-year-old son, now at Sandhurst, and not Azam himself, would become the Nizam's heir. Henceforth, the Nizam announced in an ad in a local paper, anyone lending money to son Azam "would have to bear the consequences and blame themselves for their losses...
...indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans (madams): up to ten years in jail or a maximum $833 fine. Financial aid was promised to help local communities rehabilitate their ex-prostitutes, but there was no compulsion on the girls to learn better ways, and no penalty whatever on the private practice of their profession in private quarters...
Officially, the FBI says the Galindez case is a local New York police matter; unofficially, it has kept abreast of the investigation. At his press conference three weeks-ago President Eisenhower reported: "The Attorney General went after the case as quickly as it arose, went into New York City." Manhattan police, meanwhile, have sifted what one tired cop called "a million" clues. A sample last week was the testimony given a Havana judge by one Rafael ("The Corpse") Soler, who is under indictment for the murder of an anti-Trujillo Dominican exile in Havana last summer. Gangster Soler said that...
...deduction from his strangling $1,210,789 income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Mumbled Louis: "This kinda thing gonna follow me all around?" Then he stuffed the notice of levy in his suitcase and slowly began to put on his pants. A dime dropped to the floor. The local promoter retrieved it and handed it to Joe. Unsmiling, the Brown ex-Bomber gazed vacantly at the coin. "You payin' me for the night's work...
...Brotherhood of Teamsters were conspiring with Seattle gamblers to 1) control Portland's law-enforcement agencies, 2) organize all the city's rackets, from pinball machines to prostitution. The Page One story put S. I. Newhouse's staid Oregonian into a running fight not only with local officials but also with its opposition daily, the Oregon Journal (circ...