Word: olson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin") was pardoned by California's Governor Culbert L. Olson from a 15-year-old sentence for assault, for which he spent three years in San Quentin. Krebs, pardoned, hopes to win U.S. citizenship, escape deportation...
HELEN MARGARET OLSON Naugatuck, Conn...
...bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...
Last week Governor Olson gave the Duchess and her two pals a further 30-day reprieve...
While California's Governor Olson held conference and OPM's Eli Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...