Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Ga., Samuel Feldman, grocer, looked across his counter at a smiling Negro who was pointing a pistol...
...Atlanta, Ga., one Helen Smith told a housekeeper that she was a police officer so that she might enter the house, put in a telephone call free of charge...
Southward bound for the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta last week were Charles Delos Waggoner who cunningly schemed $500,000 out of six Manhattan banks (TIME, Sept. 16) and George Graham Rice, arch U. S. promoter.* Also last week were broadcast charges which, if proven, may send other schemers to cells...
...Leavenworth outbreak awoke the Federal Government to its prison responsibilities. Though wardens' reports had reiterated figures on overcrowding, the only Federal prison reform of recent years was when Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then Assistant Attorney-General, sent fake convicts to Atlanta and Leavenworth to snoop. She demanded the resignation of Atlanta's Warden John W. Snook "because of utter want of administrative ability" (TIME, March 25). Out went Snook, in came A. C. Aderholdt, who first worked for Atlanta prison as a construction gang foreman in 1906, later as prison guard, as record clerk. Now, as warden, he is softspoken...
...Leavenworth eruption President Hoover evolved a plan for quick penal relief. Near Leavenworth Penitentiary is the Army's Ft. Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks. The President ordered the 690 bad soldiers held there to be quartered in other Army penal institutions, making room for 1,800 civilian prisoners from crammed Atlanta and Leavenworth. Already over 1,000 have been transferred to Ft. Leavenworth. Not transferred was famed Dr. Frederick Cook, North pole "explorer," "blue sky" stock salesman. A well-behaved inmate, he took no part in the riot last summer...