Word: norfolkers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated that Mr. Gill's "political goose was probably cooked." There is ample cause, in the light of the past two days, to regard such a statement as a bit hasty. It is true that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon may find it a trifle embarrassing to reinstate the Norfolk Head into good favor and to withdraw charges which once rang so auspiciously in streamer heads. But there is also this to consider. The legion of Mr. Gill's friends, even before the investigation, was very large. It has been treated to an inspiring spectacle; it has seen an honest...
Fireworks popped merrily at the Gill hearing yesterday when, incensed with the procedure followed by Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon, Raymond S. Wilkins, counsel for the Norfolk head, charged that the hearing was "very unfair," and that Gill "has not had a full opportunity to answer the allegations...
...completely and definitely deny that in an armistice day speech at Norfolk I told the men that they were 'fools to have fought in a war for commercialism,' or that I pointed to one of the men who was present and addressed the gathering thus, "There is a man wearing medals, but what good do they do him; he came out of the war with stomach trouble, and is now imprisoned by the government which he protected.'" This was the statement made to the CRIMSON last evening by Louis Balsam, 2G, colony officer at Norfolk in 1929. It has been...
...remarks must have come into the audience right in the middle of the speech. What I did tell them was this, that crime is a commercialized war against society and that anyone who fights in that war is a fool. I told the men what those who were at Norfolk were there because they had fought in a losing fight against society, in a war in which almost all the participants lose anyway. I pointed out to the men that they had a much bigger war ahead of them than any war they had ever been in, that...
...fear from the present farce. But one is inclined to worry about the status of Mr. Gill. He is a capable, honest, and intelligent public servant. In his report to Governor Ely on January 24, Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, an unbiased observer, stated that the Gill administration at Norfolk was "the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts." His answer to the allegations presented yesterday were as satisfactory as any reasonable man could desire, and the indications are that this will continue to be the story. And yet Mr. Gill's political goose is probably cooked...