Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leavenworth Prison, Kan., Dr. Frederick Albert Cook, mendacious near-discoverer (1908) of the North Pole, busies himself with needlework while serving a term for oil-stock fraud...
Nearly two months ago, Charles R. Forbes, onetime Director of the Veterans' Bureau, entered Leavenworth Prison for conspiracy to defraud the Government in the Veterans' hospital scandal (TIME, March 29), which like the oil scandal spread its shadow over the Harding Administration. His fellow conspirator, John W. Thompson, likewise convicted, did not enter the prison because his lawyers represented that his health was poor. The Court ordered the lawyers to make a final argument in Chicago this week. Last week, however, Mr. Thompson, 64 and worried, died of a heart attack...
Both had been free on bond, but the Supreme Court's action left them no alternative but to pay their fines and go to Leavenworth penitentiary?unless they should be excused from imprisonment because of ill health. Mr. Forbes' health broke about a year ago. Mr. Thompson was last week in a St. Louis hospital recovering from an operation for hernia...
...Forbes did not try to avoid prison on account of his health. Because of a stroke of paralysis a year ago, he limped as he went to Leavenworth. Although he is only 47 he is bent and grey, with perhaps only 150 Ib. of his usual 225 Ib. remaining...
...Brigadiers, commandants of Forts Bragg, Leavenworth, Sam Houston, Clark, Sill, Riley...