Word: leavenworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Harrison George, who spent 1918-23 in Leavenworth Prison for too violent pacifism, launched the San Francisco daily People's World on $33.000 raised by California Communists. After Chicago's Midwest Daily Record gets under way February 12, People's World will be western link in a cross-country chain of Communist papers anchored to New York's Daily Worker. Almost bare of advertising, first week's issues of People's World gave 20,000 readers a generous three cents' worth of bellicose headlines about "SHIPOWNERS PLOT LOCKOUT" and "Portrait...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...
...smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer in Punjab, a law student, editor, lecturer on Xray. He has also been an inmate of Leavenworth Penitentiary. Paroled by Calvin Coolidge after helping to foil a jail break, King of Duty Ghadiali was almost deported as an Oriental alien in 1934, reinstated as a citizen by Franklin Roosevelt within the last year. He is now head of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute" at Malaga, N. J., which claims...
...Father Will was made director of a U. S. chaplains' school at Fort Leavenworth, where chaplains are familiarized with their religious and secular duties. Every regiment has at least one chaplain, detailed for an indefinite period. Aside from holding services for men of his faith, he must know how to join in with all the soldiers in athletic, theatrical and educational ventures, lecture to them on subjects like "Wearing the Uniform," "Personal Purity," "Don't be a Borrower," "Great Soldiers of America," and must be aware of opportunities like one mentioned in the manual...
Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary...