Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Police scoured the countryside for strikers, ran them in & out of jail for questioning (and an occasional pummeling) faster than Sheriff Bob Medlin could count them. By week's end, 15 union members had been formally charged with crimes ranging from blocking highways to attempted murder, and the net was out for four union officers who had skipped town...
...murder in May 1949 of Willie Lurye, an International Ladies' Garment Workers Union organizer, was a sensational news story. Shortly after he was stabbed to death in a telephone booth in Manhattan's garment center, the union posted a $25,000 reward for the capture of his killers; a few days later, tens of thousands of garment workers joined the funeral march (TIME, May 23, 1949) as 100 New York City detectives hunted the killers. The hunt was still at its height when Columnist Walter Winchell got into the case: from a friend "on the side...
...together, past a thoughtfully posted Mirror photographer, to a police station only 100 feet away. There Winchell, pale and "sick to my stomach," turned Macri in, claimed the $25,000 reward for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund. It was the second time Winchell had surrendered a man wanted for murder: in 1939, he handed over the late gangster, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter...
...intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering short of murder is not punishable by Hollywood's Production Code...
From then on, Jeremiah rushes headlong to disaster-an elaborate venture into murder, his apprehension by some bumbling louts intent on gaining the reward for the murderer's discovery, the climactic trial at which he hears himself convicted by false testimony he cannot refute because of his even greater fear of the truth. After a last-minute escape to a miserable outlaw camp in the wilderness of Kentucky, he comes to the final, crushing discovery that he has been the victim of a plot by his political cronies...