Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again, well-meaning benefactors establish scholarships to which are attached all manner of strings. The $600 Leavenworth Scholarship has gone begging since 1919 for want of a student with that name. Other funds exist for the use of the sons of retired Naval officers. In many cases, the scholarship exists where no candidate can be found who complies with the terms of the bequest. At a time when every scholarship could easily be put to immediate use, this situation is nothing short of a calamity. The University is powerless to use any of this money that is tied...
...obscure politician in Philadelphia, Jack Diamond ran off to Brooklyn, became a package thief, earned the name "Legs" by the fleetness of his escapes. Once caught, he was sent to a reformatory. The Draft got him during the War. but he deserted the Army. He was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary for a three-year term. First official act of clemency by President Harding...
That was the first that Farmer Emerson Salisbury, 73, knew about the jail break that had taken place four hours prior and nine miles away at the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth ("The Bankers Institute"). Six men had escaped, dragging spectacled Warden Thomas B. White, onetime Texas Ranger, along with them as hostage. No one knew how they got their arms or passes to enter the warden's office...
...Leaving Leavenworth, the convicts and their prisoner met four colored soldiers going out hunting. They took the car and shotguns. When this car bogged down, the convicts became frenzied. They confiscated another passing car, commandeered two young women for shields. Warden White protested. They blew his arm almost off, left him for dead. Then they split up into two groups. One group- Charles Berta, Stanley Brown, Tom Underwood-ran into the woods where they were soon captured...
...life he was uncertain of "beating the rap" (staying out of jail).* If convicted he might be sentenced to 32 years in the penitentiary, fined $80,000. Before him he had the example of his brother Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, who had been sentenced to three years in Leavenworth on a similar charge (but had obtained a stay of mandate until Oct. 20 to file an appeal). Jack Gusick, a Capone lieutenant, had been given five years in prison; other important gangsters were behind the bars. Sighed Scarface Snorkey...