Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail Tribune (circulation: 4,500). No less extraordinary than the obscurity of the winner was the fact that its achievement was conservatively defensive against a crusading opposition paper, the News. While the Mail Tribune got the Pulitzer Prize, the News's editor was serving a life sentence in prison. Nestled in the floor of Southern Oregon's lush Rogue River valley, famed for its pears and apples, Medford was a thriving, peace-loving town (pop.: 11,000), loyal to its Chamber of Commerce and American Legion, until Llewellyn A. Banks arrived from Riverside, Calif, in 1925. With...
Decade ago the No. 1 business in race prejudice in the U. S. was the Ku Klux Klan which passed its heyday when the huge profits of its rulers were disclosed and some of them were sent to prison. The Klan still functions from its Georgia headquarters and claims to be coming back but the rise of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts gave a new twist to the racial clothing business. Sheets were changed for shirts. New organizations sprang up in which Klan philosophy, Fascist ideas and economic nostrums were crossbred to appeal...
Chapter No. 2 began last May when, thanks to the intercession of his honest farmer father and the judge who sentenced him, he was set free and went home. But prison had not cured him, for now his friends were the hardest of hard criminals. He resumed his career with petty robberies in Indianapolis, got enough cash to buy a fast car and guns, turned to bank robbing for which his contempt for human life fitted him. Within three months after his release from prison three banks alone yielded him over $40,000. With his new wealth and daring...
...across frontiers they poured last week. 9,000 monarchists, clericals, politicians. Some of them had been behind bars or exiled two years, when tousle-haired President Alcala Zamora finally signed Spain's bitterly argued political amnesty bill. Greatest excitement took place before the gates of Cadiz Military Prison where a cheering crowd of bullfighters, waiters and young aristocrats assembled to welcome paunchy General José Sanjurjo, sentenced to death in 1932 for his abortive attempt to stage a monarchist revolution in Andalusia...
...board of nine, three appointed by the President and six elected annually by the States, will have power to regulate prices, determine costs and forbid the expansion of prison industries that might upset competing businesses...