Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...
...West Point in 1906, who completes his course this year at the Army War College in Washington, comes to Harvard in September as Professor of Military Science and Tactics, to replace Major L.A. Craig, who has been ordered away. Major Craig goes from Harvard to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to take the regulation army course which prepares officers for staff duties with the larger divisions of the army...
Immediately "Convict Hansen" began to snoop on Warden Snook, to send out secret reports on the prison to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of U. S. penal institutions (as well as of Prohibition prosecutions). Finally he was transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary, and thence released on Mrs. Willebrandt's orders...
...sang, "I am his . . ." and the song, sung well enough to be effective even if it had not had any particular significance, moved her hearers to an extraordinary pitch of sentiment because they knew that her husband, Jules W. ("Nicky") Arnstein, was serving sentence at the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Now, in her first picture, she sings "My Man" again and also her other famous songs, "I'm an Indian" and "Second Hand Rose"; she recites "Mrs. Cohen at the Beach." The plot is what it has to be to give her a chance to do her stuff...
...Smith, Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in 1926, was fined $1,000 last week and sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for 15 months. He & friends had an automobile stealing racket in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Louisville...