Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archbishop's sentence was commuted to ten years' solitary imprisonment. The Soviet Government replied to Secretary Hughes' plea for mercy for the Catholics that there are still 50 political (wartime) prisoners in Leavenworth who have done less against government than the ecclesiastics had done against theirs. The Russians rejected Poland's offer to exchange prominent Communist prisoners now in Polish prisons in return for Monsignor Butchkavitch, who is a Pole...
...There are fifty-two political prisoners held in jail today serving sentences of from ten to twenty years society for an alleged expression of opinion," said Mr. James Manning, I. W. W. leader, who has recently been released after a five-year sentence in Leavenworth Priston, addressing the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon...
Speaking for over 45 minutes, Mr. Manning outlined his personal experiences in prison at Seattle, in the Cook County Jail at Chicago, and at Fort Leavenworth, and made a strong plea for the freedom of the men still in prison. In 1917 he said he was organizing the I. W. W. in the lumber camps of Washington, where the living and working conditions were so bad that the luber men joined the organization in great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about...
...that a man who has been found guilty, as the Congressman says, "of the most fiendish cruelties" should be allowed to go free, when soldiers who committed what in comparison to the offenses of "Hard-Boiled Smith" were "trivial infractions of the military code" are still serving, time at Leavenworth. According to newspaper reports, Smith has broken parole. If this is true, surely this transgressor against the spirit of fair play should be again apprehended and placed where the perpetrator of such deeds as he committed belongs...
...College. He also made several historical and staff rides with the War College officials over the Virginia battlefields. Nor was his fostering interest in the development of professional military studies in the army limited to the War College. He visited and lectured at the Army Staff College, Fort Leavenworth...