Word: rapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Courtney, bright young state's attorney (now a Chicago circuit judge), directed the case of The People of the State of Illinois v. Roger Touhy, and won Roger Touhy's undying enmity. Through two long, sensational trials and until his death, Touhy claimed that the kidnap rap was a frame-up by the Capone gang and corrupt officials to put him away permanently. His sentence: 99 years...
With the U.S. Communist Party and its onetime boss, old (68), grey Earl Browder, both at a decrepit pass, a 1952 federal perjury rap against Browder was dropped by the Government. One of the Government's key witnesses was dead, the other "unavailable...
...Detroit, where he pleaded guilty in 1951 to a rap of immorally propositioning a plainclothes cop, teary-voiced Singer Johnnie Ray, 32, was nabbed again on the same old charge...
...knew better. Partly, it was pure orneriness. It was also an expression of anger at local officials, who have done nothing about the city's unpaved streets and open sewers. And since those officials were members of the coalition that elected President Juscelino Kubitschek, they also took the rap for Brazil's rising prices and the shortages of such basic commodities as beans and beef...
Alone and afoot on Hollywood Boulevard in the small hours, TV's volatile Producer-Actor Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz, 42, was collared last month by roving plain-clothes vice squadmen, booked on a "plain drunk" rap. Protesting his sobriety and threatening to call his friend, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, into the case, Arnaz finally coughed up $21 bail, was driven home by his chauffeur. Last week when the case came up in court, Arnaz did not. Bail forfeited. Case closed...