Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson has just received a last minute dispatch from Joliet Penitentiary, Illinois, that exclusive institution of higher education that my justly b e said to have more stringent admission requirements than Harvard College. Of course this fact is in some measure obviated by the equally obvious truth that the tests of entrance are to a greater degree manual than intellectual, and true brilliance of mind is at time a hindrance to entry within the sacred precincts and (or) an aid to departure therefrom...
Returning to the Joliet news item, one justly say that it is one pregnant with interest for every on of the ten thousand sons of Harvard who seek, if not victory, at least stellar competition. Forestalling any possible controversy of the nature that disturbed supporters of Army and Navy football not many years since, the wise and sapient authorities of the J. A. A.have voluntarily adopted the three year eligibility rule for their football players...
Lester M. Gillis, alias George ("Baby Face") Nelson, 25, second-in-command of the Dillinger gang. Robbery put Gillis in Joliet in 1931. Last January he helped kidnap Edward G. Bremer in St. Paul. In April he killed a Federal agent while the Dillinger gang was shooting its way out of the Little Bohemia roadhouse in Wisconsin. The U. S. will...
Married. Geraldine Swift, 22, daughter of President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co., packers; and Albert Thomas ("Tommy") Taylor, 26, Chicago broker, onetime Yale footballer; in Joliet, Ill. whither they eloped from Chicago...
Guards in the State Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. had to carry two murderers named Sullivan and Scott to solitary confinement when, too drunk to walk, they bellowed "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" in a cellhouse. Present but sober were Murderers Nathan Leopold, prison librarian, and Richard Loeb, who conducts a correspondence school for convicts. They said they had "just dropped in." were excused...