Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again escaped, this time from the Troup County chain gang. Then he wrote his book which was a highly exaggerated account of his own experiences. His publishers and film executives refused to reveal his whereabouts to police. But lately he gave a lecture at Westfield, N. J. in conjunction with the showing of his film. And growing yet bolder, last month he attended a luncheon at Trenton, sat next to Superintendent Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf of New Jersey's State police...
...Union, the 14th Engineers Veterans' Association and many another service group, Mayor Jacob Sechler Coxey of Massillon, Ohio, and hundreds of other persons including several liberal Georgians, buried the desk of Governor Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey with petitions begging that Prisoner Burns be saved from the Georgia chain gang...
...book: I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang...
Little guessing what they would find, the police searched the house, discovered it was a bomb factory, seized 1,000 bombs and papers referring to a chain of newly opened restaurants which served a hearty meal for the trifling price of 20 centavos (5?). The restaurants proved to be "revolutionary cantonments." One, directly across from the Central Police Station, had especially big pineapples. Police eyes bulged at a letter mentioning that the chain-restaurant revolutionists planned "to kidnap the President of the Republic and other high officials...
Supplementing previous gifts for the restoration of Italian antiquities, art-loving Merchant Samuel Henry Kress (5-10-25¢ chain) gave Premier Mussolini $10,500 to complete the rebuilding of Mantua's Ducal Palace...