Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mine. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine." During Hoffa's struggle to get control of the Teamster joint council in New York, Dio helped him set up seven fake "paper locals" to cast votes in a joint-council election. When Dio went to prison on an extortion rap in 1958, Hoffa gratefully promised to look after Dio's family...
Detroit. Hoffa helped Herman Kierdorf get a parole from a prison term for armed robbery, hired him as a Teamster organizer. Hoffa also found a job as a Teamster business agent for Herman's ex-convict nephew Frank, who then set about shaking down small businessmen in Flint, Mich. He was fatally burned last year while setting fire to a Flint dry-cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents...
Early this month Pal Kosa and seven others were lined against a wall in Budapest's Fo Utca prison and shot dead by a firing squad. At the secret trial of Pal Kosa and his friends, 182 witnesses were called for the prosecution, none for the defense. Some Ujpest Communists offered to testify for the defendants but were refused a hearing by Hungary's hanging judge, Janos Borbaly. Not a word about the trial or execution appeared in Hungarian newspapers, but word leaked out to the Manchester Guardian's Victor Zorza, a Polish exile with excellent contacts...
...cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...neighborhood, mainly immigrant Italian and Jewish families, had its tough side. "Dutch Schultz ran his rackets there," recalls Rocky. "But none of my real friends ever went to prison." The farthest Rocky ever strayed from the diamond was to the corner pool parlor, where he learned to shoot a sharp game. Rocky was too busy getting ready for the big leagues, squeezing rubber balls to build up his hand and arm muscles (he still does), hoarding his dimes to buy a good glove. His throwing arm was soon strong enough to win bets from the unwary, and there are those...