Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though a longtime Republican, 57-year-old Joseph Bibb is no professional politician. Born in Montgomery, Ala. where his father taught Hebrew and Greek at a theological school, he is a practicing lawyer (Yale Law School, 1918) and managing editor of the Pittsburgh Courier's Chicago edition. As safety...
Last week Alger Hiss became eligible for parole. The former U.S. State Department official had completed 20 months of his five-year sentence for perjury. (He was convicted on two counts, the chief one being that he lied when he told a federal grand jury that he did not give...
This week the crime commission began focusing its attention on some of the less savory tricks of the politico's trade-the buying of judgeships, the salary kickback and the use of party funds as private bank accounts. The commission's shift in emphasis, however, was cold comfort...
The protagonists of a far-from-forgotten drama made news. In the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., Alger Hiss, having served nearly a third of his five year sentence, applied for parole. Whittaker Chambers, meanwhile, was in a Baltimore hospital, after a heart attack suffered on Election Day.
¶President & Director Ralph Stolkin and Director Abraham Koolish, his father-in-law, who have frequently tangled with the Federal Trade Commission and Better Business Bureau because of their punchboard promotions, mail-order life insurance and other past activities (TIME, Oct. 27). ¶Director William Gorman, the board representative of...