Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-slavery meeting in the New Jersey Assembly chamber at Trenton one day last week. The crowd whooped and hissed, not quite aware where its humanitarian instincts ceased and where its sectional fervor began. Georgia had come to take Robert Elliott Burns back to one of its notorious chain gangs. Almost everybody in New Jersey thought he had a good idea of what a chain gang was like. The case of Arthur Maillefert, 22-year-old New Jersey boy who died last summer in a Florida sweatbox, was fresh in mind (TIME, Oct. 24). Radio and Press had broadcast...
...stand for emotional appeal. A penologist testified that Georgia's penal system was "the worst," that Burns would die if returned. Counsel argued that Burns had been led to believe he would get a quick parole if he waived extradition when he returned to the chain gang...
...think Burns should go back to a chain gang,'' he was asked...
...14th Engineers Veterans' Association and many another service group, Mayor Jacob Sechler Coxey of Massillon, Ohio, and hundreds of other persons including several liberal Georgians, buried the desk of Governor Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey with petitions begging that Prisoner Burns be saved from the Georgia chain gang...
...book: I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang...