Word: barboza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gittleman is seeking $1 million in damages both from the university and from Stanley Barboza, the man charged with the assault...
Another stock swindler, named Edward Hugh Wuensche, was moved to England, where, as Hugh E. Winchester, he managed to loot a Maltese investment fund of $600,000 before being jailed. Joseph Barboza, a New England hit man with 27 murders to his credit, was relocated in San Francisco as Joseph Bently; shortly afterward, local authorities arrested him-for murder. Louis Bombacino, a Chicago hoodlum, was given a floor-sweeping job at the Arizona Public Service Co. in Tempe. He was eventually caught peddling irrigation equipment stolen from the company and profiting from a gambling-prostitution ring. Justice officials admit that...
Many of the younger Portuguese, like Madalena Barboza, who came to Cambridge in 1961 when she was nine years old, flatly reject assimilation as a solution to ethnic identity problems. "We should de-emphasize the ideal of Americanization," Barboza says. "If I'm going to be called anything, I'd like to be called Portuguese, because I don't believe in giving up a nationality and taking on another one. There is no American heritage. I feel that I would be giving up something by becoming American...
...Madalena Barboza, now a senior at UMass-Boston, originally came to Cambridge with her family 13 years ago. At that time she was nine years old and did not speak English. "We spoke Portuguese at home and when I got here there was no bilingual program," Barboza recalls. "I was nine years old but I was put in first grade with six-year-olds because I couldn't speak the language. I caught up finally, but I'm still a year behind." One of her sisters quit school altogether...
Sporting a tan, a toupee and a temper, Frank Sinatra finally showed up to testify before the House Select Committee on Crime and promptly denounced the legislators for permitting "character assassination." Specifically, he fumed that Mafia Enforcer Joseph Barboza had been unchallenged in testifying that Sinatra had "fronted" for the Mafia in real estate investments. "This bum went running off at the mouth. I resent it. I won't have it. I'm not a second-class citizen." Shaking a newspaper headline (WITNESS LINKS SINATRA WITH MAFIA) Sinatra snapped: "That's charming. That's all hearsay...