Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
Francisco de Pineda was captured, condemned to death. Ziolo Rodrignez Rabano, one of his accomplices, escaped to Florida. Because the then Minister of Executions had been released from jail "for faithful services rendered," Cuba at that time lacked an executioner. Francisco de Pineda eloquently argued his own qualifications for the position. He got the job, and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment...
Searching for a human interest story, sentimental correspondents hurried to another part of the jail to interview executioner de Pineda, the condemned Rabano's onetime friend. They found him in his cell, nervously munching bread and onions...
...Chairman E. S. Amazeen 31, secures places for several hundred Harvard students yearly to coach boy's clubs in settlement houses of Cambridge and Boston in various indoor sports and diversions. Students also take charge of boy scout groups, classes in naturalization of foreigners, and classes at the Cambridge jail. The judges of the juvenile courts have commended the students for their work in keeping-boys occupied...
...satire on real Radio-Announcer Norman Brokenshire of Manhattan's Station WABC. In competition with the police, he set out to apprehend the thieves. Next evening, during his dark seance, Dr. Workman was murdered. Announcer Brokenchild's efforts at detection were misinterpreted; he nearly went to jail as a colleague of the insidious "Ghost Gang...