Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Louise Vinci Querra, "Queen of Nebraska Bootleggers"; and Earl Manning, onetime dry agent; in Glenwood, Iowa. Agent Manning arrested Queen Querra, fell in love, joined her racket, was arrested, languished in Leavenworth, was recently released...
Means was not involved in the Veterans' Bureau scandal. The name in that was Forbes, whose term at Leavenworth Penitentiary ended last winter...
...your issue of May 28 in an article on the death of Wilham D. Haywood, you refer to the I. W. W. men convicted of violating war laws and say that most of them are still in Leavenworth prison. We are glad to state that every one of them has long since been released by pardon of the President and that there are not now any federal political or industrial prisoners...
...Crime Club is not a drink, a name for Tier 44 in the east wing at Leavenworth, or the latest headline symbolism for the first half of the Yankee batting order. The Crime Club is the Literary Guild idea, restricted, to the less aesthetic paths of murder, rape and arson. "A jury of mystery experts examines manuscripts--and from these the great ones are selected...
...jury which investigated Bill Haywood's objections to fighting condemned him together with about 40 other Wobblies to go to Leavenworth to jail. The Wobblies appealed; when the Grand Jury upheld the verdict against them they were assembled and sent to Leavenworth where most of them are still doing time. But Big Bill Haywood had boarded a boat and sailed to Europe. He did not pay his passage; burly, black with dirt, pathetically tough, Bill Haywood stoked the furnace of the ship that fear had made him board. In Moscow, where he went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood...