Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a well-to-do Mason (out on parole from a twelve-year jail sentence): "Why don't you declare an economic blockage? It would be better to suffer a few months that way than to suffer Franco a few years more."
Then Actors' Equity Association began begging the new Mayor to let burlesque in again-at least on parole. In an open letter to self-made Mayor William O'Dwyer, Equity magazine presented its plea. Sure, burlesque had its faults, but they were not great enough "to justify annihilation...
Paroled in 1941, he had tried his hand at running a Cape Cod farm, worked himself up to a vice president's assistant in a fireworks factory, then got interested in Ramie when he moved to Florida. Last week the stock, issued at $2.87½, was quoted at $4.50...
Three years after Roy Hollis arrived in Rutledge, 1,500 citizens of the town and county, impressed by his industry and honesty, had signed a petition asking the state pardon board to lift his parole. Trapped by his neighbors' good will, the fugitive confessed. The petition was destroyed. In...
This week the parole board agreed, sent Roy Thomas Hollis back into the world a free man.