Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succumb before the end of their term to the many tropical fevers that infest the colony, when released, they are obliged to pass under parole a corresponding number of years. Thus, in whatever way, the primary object of the colony is accomplished: that no convict should come back alive to tell the tale...
Colonel Furlong then described in striking words the horrible conditions under which the convicts have to labor. "But the most terrible part of it all is the condition of the men after a few years there--their wasted and diseased bodies and their pathetic faces, from which hope has long disappeared. Ev-everything about them is expressive of gloom and tragedy, from the sharks that gather about the island when the death of a convict is announced by the tolling of the bell, to the dead convicts found outside the dormitories after the night brawls, in which the guards...
...Kelly Bill, increasing the pay of post office employes, over the President's veto; opposing a modification of the Japanese exclusion clause of the Immigration Law; endorsing citizens' military training camps in so far as they are good for youth and not militaristic in intent: asking the abolition of convict labor: demanding Federal laws prohibiting the transportation of workers to communities where there are strikes; favoring the abolition of tax-exempt securities...
...leaders of the society, still identified only by numbers in convict fashion, have assured the CRIMSON that the affair is not a hoax, that there really will be a parade with band, torches, and all the conventional trappings of a political procession...
...cannot convict a hundred million dollars in the United States...