Word: convict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always been the naive conviction of this reviewer that nobody could be convicted of murder unless the body had been definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
Next night 300 Lea admirers gathered in Nashville's Noel Hotel to pay tribute to the ex-convict. Said Colonel Lea: "I have been through the Garden of Gethsemane. I have been confronted with the problem of whether to go on or stop living. I had a large amount of insurance on my life . . . which I could mature and thus provide security for my wife and the dearest children who ever lived. I decided to face life and each day to pray to be worthy of the love of my family and the confidence of my friends...
Lead Belly was in Manhattan last week about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...
Said Republican Representative William Ekwall of Oregon: "To convict Judge Ritter you would have to pile up presumptions that wouldn't be evidence in Russia, let alone the U. S. The case against him would not stand up in a police court...