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...Trick. In Richmond, Joseph Linisus Hall, 35, settled for 20 years on an armed-robbery rap, complained bitterly that someone had stolen his $35 Homburg and tie, argued: "I might not get to use them for a while, but it's the principle of the thing...
...sooner was his father settled on the farm than Willie got another big break. One of the horses trained by Junie Corbin was found to be doped, and according to racing law, the trainer took the rap. Junie needed money badly, and the most valuable property he owned was Hartack's contract. Willie's services were sold to Mrs. Ada L. Rice...
...corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...
...Mafia (the ancient Sicilian vendetta society that some authorities claim is running U.S. racketeering), Squillante always managed to avoid deep trouble, although his address book produced the names of such crooks as Joey Surprise, Nanny the Geep and Joe Stutz. He got caught only once, on an income-tax rap. He solved that, the committee charged, by having his boys extract $57,855 from two cartmen's groups, then paying up his taxes...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan and the four majority members of the School Committee received an unmistakable rap on the knuckles from the voters for having attempted to appoint 17 teachers and coaches, without apparent qualifications, over objections from School Committeeman Judson T. Shaplin '42, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education...