Word: convict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene V. Debs, according to his own account, is " a citizen of the world," because he is deprived of United States citizenship by being a paroled convict from the penitentiary at Atlanta. That did not prevent Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee, from booming Debs for the Presidency of the United States...
...strangest of song recitals was given here the other day. The soloist was a recently released convict who was billed with no further name than his prison number -562. He sang half a dozen songs in a magnificent tenor. One of these, dedicated to his wife, was a' member of a group of 150 compositions that he wrote in prison...
...March 29 The World published the first of its stories telling how Martin Talbert, a, North Dakota farm boy, died in a Florida convict camp after a brutal flogging by the whipping boss...
...Yesterday, 47 days later, the Florida Legislature passed a bill abolishing corporal punishment in county convict camps, and Gov. Hardee announced he would sign...
...Fifty-seven days later convict whipping in Florida was abolished...