Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston's popular, ex-convict Mayor James Michael Curley, addressing the United Spanish War Veterans, plumped for MacArthur for President, but doubted that his man would make it. Both parties, his honor averred, want "a passive man who would appease Wall Street and the C.I.O.," so they shipped MacArthur overseas "to destroy...
...identified as a 37-year-old ex-convict, is one of three missing gunmen, the only participants in the January 9 robbery not yet rounded up, police disclosed. Apparently suspicious at the sight of patrol cars cruising in his area, the suspect dashed to his garage and escaped the police net in a tan automobile bearing Florida plates...
Police believe that the ex-convict had recently returned from Florida after seeing Anthony Novicki, the Dedham trigger-man in the holdup, who was arrested in Miami Tuesday. Miami authorities alleged that the Tilley couple of Boston, also arraigned Tuesday, had flown to Florida bearing funds to bolster Novicki's spotty finances...
Correctional Institution. In Columbus, Miss., Convict Frank Gardner stayed on as chef after his term was up, stayed on as a prisoner after he was caught cooking stolen chickens...
...your Dec. 29 issue you mention the 16 European nations participating in the Marshall Plan . . . and you begin your enumeration with "Australia." . . . The actual participant in question is 971 years old and was already quite civilized when Australia was not even a convict settlement. . . . The country, sir, is the romantic little Republic of Austria. . . . MICHAEL HAMMER Berkeley, Calif...