Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first action after being declared absolute dictator was to order Parliament to enact a compulsory arbitration law. Violators will be punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Imprisonment to an Italian is most abhorrent, as he knows the horrible condition of the various Italian prisons. Therefore he will work for underpay and under any conditions rather than go to prison...
...general alarm was sent out for his arrest by the New York police . . . to the rank and file of the police department he is known as "Bum." . . . He faced 22 years of prison life, including five years of an unexpired sentence in Auburn . . . clever and dangerous . . . handcuffs . . . a heavy blow from behind . . . two patrolmen . . . escape...
Then the readers of the Times understood. This "Bum" Rogers was a criminal who happened to make his escape from the train on which he was being taken to prison on the same day that General H. L. Rogers met his demise. Someone on the Times payroll merely failed to distinguish between two individuals. What was the difference? They were both named Rogers. . . . He put the General's "head" on the criminal's cleverness-wrote the history of a gunman's escape under the epitaph of a famous soldier...
...Adopted a resolution to have the credentials of Representative-elect John W. Langley of Kentucky considered by a select committee to report on the qualifications of Mr. Langley and recommend action to the House. Mr. Langley is under prison sentence for conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws...
Some weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19) it was announced that three of the most notable Fascists implicated in the atrocious murder of the Socialist Deputy, Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924), were about to be released from prison without trial, upon a motion from the Prosecution, which now considers them guiltless...