Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Gluecks found that boys treated gently by judges got into trouble as often as those treated roughly, concluded that probation and parole are no cures for crime. But they learned two encouraging facts: as their group grew older, 1) one man in three reformed, 2) the crimes of the...
The day he ran away from his father's Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy...
Last June, when 36-year-old Lou Gehrig, the Yankees' "Iron Horse," said good-by to baseball, no insurance company would have considered him a good risk. For Gehrig was benched by a rare, incurable, creeping paralysis known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Last week stout-hearted Lou, now a...
Besides these arrests, Hoover and six agents had arrested 48 others: bank embezzlers, impersonators, parole violators, auto thieves, escaped convicts.
Co-featured is "Parole Fixer," in which Eddie Hoover's G-Men go gang-busting for the umpteenth time.