Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After deliberating two hours the Atlanta jury found Angelo Herndon guilty. "I think the jury was thoroughly justified," said Judge Lee B. Wyatt as he sentenced Angelo Herndon, not to death but to 18-to-20 years in Georgia's much-publicized chain gang.* Counsel Davis promised to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary...
...State House of Representatives last week resolved that Robert Elliott Burns, chain-gang fugitive and publicist, had plotted "to defame and bring reproach upon the name of a great people" with his exaggerated autobiographical book and cinema...
Sued. Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. and Vitaphone Corp.; by J. Harold Hardy, Georgia chain gang warden; for $1,000,000 each for "vicious, untrue and false attacks" in Warner's film / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, cinematized from Fugitive Robert Elliott Burns's book (TIME, Jan. 2); in Atlanta...
...Jobs (Amkino) differs from the run of Russian pictures in the light touch with which its director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing...
...stood John I. Kelley, Assistant Attorney General of Georgia. He pointed to the 250-lb. warden of the Troup County chain gang, asked if his moon face was not "full of the milk of human kindness." He continued: "We are proud of our State and its history . . . not a vindictive people . . . not going to inflict punishment . . . make us the butt of ridicule . . . the people of Georgia need no defense...