Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...society, group and assembly of persons who teach and advocate the overthrow and destruction of the United States by force and violence." The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.† Its maximum penalty: ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each indictment...
...government prepared a speedy trial for Assassin Pallante, jailed in Regina Coeli (Queen of Heaven) prison. In the Policlinico, 55-year-old Togliatti contracted pneumonia, but after massive doses of penicillin (from the U.S.) he felt well enough to ask for a newspaper. He wanted to know how Italy's star rider was doing in France's cross-country bicycle race, the Tour de France...
...Bers took his eccentricities for granted; they knew that all the Tolstoys were mildly mad. (Devout Brother Dimitry Tolstoy attended divine service every saint's day-in the chapel of a local prison.) One of young Leo's favorite whims was to let chance decide important questions. "If she takes that final high note well," he said to himself one evening when Tatyana was singing, "then I shall deliver my letter today" (a proposal of marriage to sister Sonya). Tatyana took her note superbly; Tolstoy instantly delivered...
Home Ties. In Huntsville, Tex., Convict Levurt Whitehurst, who had escaped from a state prison home, checked back in, explaining, "I went to see my grandma." The Book. In Brooklyn, Joseph Attilio, who made the mistake of denting the fender of a car belonging to Patrolman Edward Baldini, was charged with 1) driving without a license, 2) having improper plates, 3) leaving the scene of an accident, 4) dangerous driving...
...Albert ("Blabbermouth") Bates, 57, serving a life sentence for the 1933 kidnaping of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, died in Alcatraz prison without ever blabbing where he had hidden his $100,000 in ransom money...