Word: parolee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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time, I don't see to save my soul; If 1 can't get a pardon, try me in a parole. . . .
4) Elimination of pardon and parole "abuse."
Indiana. Republican Senator Arthur Robinson was campaigning for re-election on the grounds that his opponent, Sherman Minton, was picked by Governor McNutt and Governor McNutt's Parole Board freed John Dillinger year and a half ago. Senator Robinson, because of his vicious personal attacks upon the White House...
In Pittsburgh, a prisoner bargained to paint the dome of the county jail, a regular two-month job, if the warden would keep him supplied with cigarets, help him get a parole. Dispensing with scaffolding, the prisoner rigged up a sliding chair, painted the dome in three days, consumed $2.30...
In books weighty with case histories and sociological formulas Professor Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Law School and his scholarly wife Eleanor have told how 500 Criminal Careers began, how 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents got that way. In a third fine fat book they now tell why 500 Delinquent Women went...