Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Frank Nardone, Austin Callahan, Hugh Brown and Robert Gottfried were brought to trial in Manhattan last year for smuggling alcohol, an Alcohol Tax Unit investigator introduced into the record excerpts from 72 tapped telephone conversations. After Nardone was sentenced to three years in prison and his companions to a year and a day each, they appealed their convictions on the ground that Section 605 of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 forbids any person not authorized by the sender to intercept or divulge telephone messages. Denied new trials by a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, they got them...
...forget the name of the Guaranty's former secretary and general manager, one Gilbert H. Beesemyer. Seven years ago, they and 24,000 other Guaranty depositors discovered that he had stolen eight million dollars from the company (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Embezzler Beesemyer went to San Quentin Prison for 44 years. Since then no less than 2,500 Guaranty depositors have gone to the poorhouse or the insane asylum, some 30 have committed suicide. With the help of Depression, Guaranty's original assets of $20,000,000 had shrunk to $5,000,000 (mostly in land...
...final spasm, still at the interview, Margo learns that her gangster brother has been shot in a prison break. Like a gallant trouper she chokes back her sobs, and the busy curtains close for keeps...
Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York...
Half-a-dozen gas grenades arched through the window. A moment later six licked convicts stumbled out, but Captain Sanders was not with them. Guardsmen found him on the floor of his office in a pool of blood, covered with fresh stab wounds. A few minutes later in the prison hospital. Captain Sanders died...