Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wake of John Warne ("Bet a Million") Gates. With the connivance of subordinates, he tapped the bank's funds to finance his speculation. The Gates corner in May wheat collapsed in 1905; Banker Bigelow was trapped. Since serving six years of a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth, he had lived in obscurity...
...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
...Last week Dr. Cook who, since his 1909 disgrace, spent five years in Leavenworth Prison for stock swindling, was working for the Boys Brotherhood Republic in Chicago as its physical instructor...
Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...
...same time it was announced by Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, chairman of the Student Council committee on Freshman affairs that Frederick De Wolf Bolman, Jr. '35, of Leavenworth, Kansas, and Robinson Franklin Barker '35, of Dorchester, have been appointed to fill vacancies on the 1935 Union Committee resulting from probation. Barker, Freshman manager of the University Instrumental clubs, and Bolman, president of the 1935 Debating Council, restore the committee to its membership of ten men. It was also announced by Bowditch that there will be a "comedy night" of moving pictures in the Large Common Room of the Union...