Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1925, Frederick Albert Cook, M.D., polar explorer, mountain climber, oil stock promoter, entered the U.S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., became convict No. 23,118, began to serve a 14-year sentence. Not for the doubt that had been cast upon his story of "discovering" the North Pole was he convicted, but for using the U.S. mails to defraud...
Convict No. 23,118 worked as night interne in the Leavenworth hospital, taught a prisoners' night school, edited the New-Era, prison publication. His behavior was excellent. He took no part in last year's Leavenworth mutiny (TIME...
...offices, stores) and Manhattan's Broadway Temple (Methodist Episcopal Church plus apartment houses, hotel, stores) are examples. San Franciscans now have a brand new 30-story pyramidal skyscraper-church-hotel to admire -the William Taylor Hotel and Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, on the busy corner of McAllister and Leavenworth Streets...
...spring of 1917. On his draft questionnaire he wrote: "I shall refuse . . . all combatant and noncombatant service." The University expelled him. At Camp Taylor he would not wear his uniform, was put under guard with the other conscientious objectors, tried three times, sent to Fort Leavenworth, finally dismissed after the Armistice. Now he works on the editorial staff of the Capital Times, liberal Madison, Wis., newspaper of the La Follette organization...
...young man whose surname is Leavenworth may compete for a $500 Leavenworth Scholarship at Yale College, announced Yale University's Bureau of Appointments...