Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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(TIME told of how Charles Ponzi promised investors a 50% profit in 45 days through his scheme of buying postal reply coupons in countries with depreciated exchange and redeeming them at face value for U. S. stamps. In 1920 he was convicted of using the mails to defraud and sent...
stamps. His past prison recon failed to impress investors so much as the fact that he had a great new home in Lexington, Mass, and slept in lavender pajamas. To Ponzi's creditors last week were mailed checks representing ½% of their claims. This payment, the last, made a...
At Cleveland, George Stevens, 35, in gaol for killing his wife, was refused a parole when he appealed on the grounds that it was his first murder.
"Clearly the evasion of the Prohibition law has become an amusing pastime for many American citizens and blackmailing a murderous and highly profitable business for the bootlegger. These are grave social consequences-of what? Of a law that seems to go against the grain." Four London adolescents caught stealing motorcars...
¶ Established a large-scale prison building program, a new parole system.