Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago young John Wanamaker II, son of Rodman Wanamaker (President of the New York and Philadelphia Wanamaker stores) was sentenced to six months in a French prison-charged with having signed spurious checks at Deauville...
Speaking for over 45 minutes, Mr. Manning outlined his personal experiences in prison at Seattle, in the Cook County Jail at Chicago, and at Fort Leavenworth, and made a strong plea for the freedom of the men still in prison. In 1917 he said he was organizing the I. W. W. in the lumber camps of Washington, where the living and working conditions were so bad that the luber men joined the organization in great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about...
...hours later the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty" and the prisoner found that his chance shot had gone home, that his "faked" confession had freed him from fifteen years of prison in Pennsylvania without resulting in his conviction for a crime he had never committed...
...charge based, it is claimed, on their defeat at the hands of the Turks, at the same time people in the United States are protesting scarcely less vigorously against the pardon of William Bross Lloyd, millionaire convicted of sedition, after he had served eight days of a five year prison sentence...
...Lloyd's actions and his speeches are entirely opposed to the ideas of the great majority of his fellow citizens. His presence in most civilized communities may amount to a public nuisance. But the longer he was kept in prison, the greater would be the halo of "martyrdom" to gather about his head Lloyd in prison, like Gounaris executed, could appear in the light of a misunderstood, much-maligned patriot...