Word: slammers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over in the National League, Baker's grand slammer came in the bottom of the fourth inning with the score tied, 1-1, and Jim Lonborg on the mound for the Philadelphia Phillies...
...Billy shows her how to make herself into a local Patty Hearst. The front page boys hang on every word as the dramatic Flynn moves Roxie like a puppet. He dramatizes the plight of the poor, innocent girl victimized by cruel men, and thrown pregnant into damp country slammer; of course she shot in self-defense as the man threatened to strangle her for refusing to cheat on her beloved husband...
Nonetheless Sprague insists, "If we're going to do this at all, we've got to do it right." As a Philadelphia D.A., he won 69 convictions in 70 murder cases. He also sent United Mine Workers President W.A. ("Tony") Boyle to the slammer for plotting the brutal murder of his challenger for the union leadership, Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski and Yablonski's wife and daughter...
...immediately reveal the full extent" of his knowledge of her dealings. His subsequent cooperation with federal authorities will, however, probably win him more lenient treatment when he is sentenced on concealment charges next month. As for his ex-mistress, she faces from five to ten years in the slammer on fraud charges if she loses her case. It is expected to go to the jury next week...
James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, who in four years as U.S. Attorney put dozens of Mayor Daley's underlings into the slammer for various forms of corruption, easily knocked off another Daley lieutenant, jowly Democrat Michael Hewlett, to win the state's governorship by more than a million votes. A Republican liberal, Thompson rolled up heavy majorities in conservative downstate Illinois and Chicago's suburbs; he even made inroads into the traditionally Democratic black wards of Chicago...