Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Brown, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Efficiency, explained that in 1926 out of 5,120 convictions under the drug act, 1,540 persons went to jail whereas out of 37,018 convictions under the Volstead Act, only 765 men received jail sentences. Plain is the picture of what would have happened had 'leggers been sentenced to prison in the same proportion as violators of other U. S. laws...
...Kentucky's Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...With Songs (Warner). The sob that rose in Al Jolson's throat as he sang beside the bedside of Davy Lee in other pictures has grown louder, deeper. Now that sob, heard round the world, constitutes his whole repertory. In Say It With Songs he sings in jail, torn from his young wife, his little son, caroling to fellow-prisoners about the birds, the springtime. He has accidentally killed a fellow who was making advances to his wife. As soon as he is free a truck hurts Davy Lee and the wandering story that is a framework...
...been punished enough. In 1925 a suffraget daughter of Lucy Stone wrote a newspaper letter against the release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...