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Word: parolee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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For eleven years Red Ryan was Kingston Penitentiary's model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ticket-of-Leave Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

When the smoke cleared away both bandits were dying; Constable Jack Lewis lay dead on the floor. Behind the mask of the bigger bandit was the face of Ontario's model prisoner, Red Ryan. He had systematically engaged in robberies ever since his parole. A stolen car was parked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ticket-of-Leave Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

In Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N. Y., Burglar Charlie Tortora, faced with a five-year term, fretted about his 18-year-old wife Anna. Burglar Louis Wolf, leaving on parole, promised to take care of her. Arrested last week in Brooklyn and charged with 75 burglaries were Louis Wolf, Anna Tortora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Handies | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

There citizens read newspaper extras announcing Lea's parole, ran wild, yowled: "Praise the Lord! Luke's out! Glory, Hallelujah!" At Lebanon, 40 miles out side Nashville, a crowd accompanied by an American Legion band gathered to greet Colonel Lea, who, as an A. E. F. artilleryman, tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

No, I am not a lifer in Sing Sing. But, I am a ''Lifer" in San Quentin, which, to all intents and purposes, is the same thing. But when you state that ''time" is unimportant to a "lifer," you merely admit an unconsidered contemplation of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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