Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Punishment for breaking the law was set at $100 fine or one year in prison. To the last provision was added the following unprecedented language, devised by blind Senator Gore in cynical comment on the legislative powers being given over to the Administration...
...prison day begins. Bells sound. . . . -Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing...
...more than 100 lurid canvases. Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times had suggested the exhibition, Mrs. John Sloan, the artist's wife, had arranged it and Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt had consented to be a patroness. Every one of its pictures was painted in prison...
...roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...
...VALIANT WIFE-Margaret Wilson -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) How a U. S. privateer captain landed in Dartmoor Prison in 1812, and how his Quaker wife got him out; supposedly founded on fact. Romantic but not first-rate...