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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Vignettes of blood on snow: a man in a guard's blue jacket and reefer, his long, impassive face, with its heavy eyebrows, oblique eyes, long upper lip and thin mouth pushed into the ground, lying dead, his head pointed toward freedom. That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

At twilight the machine guns on the walls were quiet, still waiting. A thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Behind the last barricade one Steven Pawlak, lifer, stood up. "Go to hell," he snarled. Troopers crossed the barricade after the last wooden-sounding machine gun volley. They found all the last six rebels dead in a pile. Warden Jennings, dragged to safety when the convicts charged the gate, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

External Monopoly: A merger of Radio's wireless, International Telephone & Telegraph's wireless and cable. Western Union's cable. (Radio would sell its wireless to I. T. & T. now if the U. S. radio law did not forbid.) Advantages:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Monopolies Wanted | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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