Word: charlestown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order that true information on the situation at Charlestown on Thursday last, may be secured, the Committee formed to protest the brutality of the police, requests that all persons who were eyewitnesses bring any statements, photographs, etc. which they may have to any members of the committee, or deposit them with Raymond Dennett, Adams...
Professor Perry gave his support in the following terms: "So far as I could gather from eyewitnesses of the unfortunate affair at Charlestown, the police used excessive violence and little discrimination in handling a crowd made up almost wholly of innocent by standers or of persons present for the purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...
...harsh arm of the law descended Allen Kellogg Philbrick '35 secretary the Harvard Chapter of the N.S.L. at night when he was apprehended in or act of stuffing anti-Hitler propaganda down a blower in the German cruiser "Karlsruhe" now at anchor in the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...book-learning of penology" (Hurley report, P. 2) but Wilkins claims that his practical information is faulty. It consists in the participation in several criminal cases in the few years which he spent at the bar and in his acquaintance with several graduates of the state prison at Charlestown. With bland assurance. Wilkins asserts. "Obviously the conclusions of such a person are entitled to no weight in a field where experience and expert knowledge are prerequisites...
Massachusetts felt the full impact. In Charlestown prison, the storm brought 24 hours of unexpected life to three condemned murderers because their executioner was snowbound. A snow plow ran into a train on the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn line, badly injured two passengers. At Worcester all stores closed. School was called off for thousands of Massachusetts children. The Eastern Dog Show in Boston had to delay most of its class competitions a day because exhibitors were stranded out of town. A midnight train from Boston due in Manhattan early next morning arrived twelve hours late. U. S. Route...