Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform. In 1913 he was appointed chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform, which went into a thorough investigation of conditions then prevailing in New York state prisons and elsewhere throughout the country. During this investigation Mr. Osborne spent a week in the Auburn prison as a convict. His report which he issued after his experiences there gained, him nation wide prominence for the first time, and soon after he was appointed Warden of Sing Sing Prison...
...brought him so much face. In that year he was made charman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform which made several investigations of the state penitentiaries in order to improve the living conditions in them. To gain an expert idea of the real state of the convicts quarters and habits. Mr. Osborne spent a week in the prison at Anburn as a convict...
...Governor," declared Mr. Ferguson, "I think you first should consider the matter of extending the parole of the penitentiary convict, Sylvester Montalbano...
...Griffith is the most beautiful female in the films, there is virtually no point in saying the doings are dull. Watch her head against the pillow of a hospital cot; see her escape from the very jaws of a greedy alligator; follow her through the thunder storm on the convict island. Do all this and be satisfied. The direction of Robert Z. Leonard and the terrible titles will not wholly flatten the effect...
...report of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, if it came entirely from his own hand, would convict him of being nearly as prolific a penman...