Word: penal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Tennessee's criminals toiled for the greater glory of Crump. His judges sent many a state prisoner to the Shelby County Penal Farm, a self-supporting agricultural institution so lush, so green, so magnificently stocked with prize cattle, prize horses, prize hogs, prize mules and chickens that many a west Tennessee farmer scrubbed his eyes in disbelief at the sight...
...year) and Mayor of Boston ($20,000). He was returning from Washington, where a Federal Court jury had found him guilty of using the mails to defraud. The welcoming committee, 1,000 strong, included his old friend Maxwell Grossman, who is also Boston's Commissioner of Penal Institutions...
...widespread fighting approximately 500 were injured. Next day police rounded up anti-Somozistas. Those who reached Panama were lucky; many of the rest were shipped off to Nicaragua's penal colony on Corn Island...
...Porter packed manicuring sets and sold Christmas cards while she was in school. She once wanted to be an actress but decided it was "too unsteady." After graduating from high school she did nine years of clerical work for the National Society of Penal Information, finding jobs For ex-convicts. In 1930 she went to work as a stenographer in Standard's sales department...
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, was found by the Christian Century to have changed his mind about punishing Germany. At an earlier stage of the war it seemed to the Archbishop that "the peace terms must for a limited period include a penal element, if justice were to be done. But . . . those of us who believe that this intense bombing [of German cities] is justified as a military measure . . . must also recognize that it constitutes a penalty for German aggression so great that no other can be called...