Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intensive effort was made by the Auditor to find everything. . . derogatory to Norfolk or the Superintendent. The most serious culmination of that effort is these thirty-six allegations. The wonder is that nothing more could be found to criticize in the planning, erection, and administration of a new prison, over such a long period of time." And, recalling what Gill has done to the sickly thirty-six, the intelligent citizenry will join in a hearty yea. Whatever the outcome, the Superintendent has shown to those who heed that he is an honest man, an able administrator, and a good fighter...
...almost 73 years of age. ... A stroke of your pen, Mr. President, could give her a few years of happiness. ... I think, Mr. President, you will agree with me when I say that 14 years of exile is a far greater punishment than five years in a military prison." The President received this plea last week from the namesake of another famed Democratic President, Draft-Dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, now living in Germany. The President sent it to Attorney General Cummings...
...robber of widows and orphans." Tried and convicted in Federal court of sending defamatory matter through the mails, he was fined $500, sentenced to a year and a day in the Leavenworth Penitentiary. In Washington, where he has made much radical noise, Representative Shoemaker is shamelessly proud of his prison sentence. He tried unsuccessfully to insert in his Congressional Directory biography: "The first man straight from prison to Congress, instead of from Congress to prison." When he was swept into office in 1932 by 317 votes, he promptly arranged to have special automobile license plates struck bearing his prison number...
...Michigan City, Ind., night before his execution Uxoricide Harvey Edwards slashed his wrists, started to bleed to death. Prison physicians gave him blood transfusions, worked 22 hours to save his life. Saved, Harvey Edwards was successfully electrocuted...
...point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received a prison sentence it would almost surely be a death sentence. The real crime of which Insull is guilty is not of fraudulently manipulating securities but of doing it unsuccessfully; and the energies of the government should not be concentrated on driving a sick man from pillar to post but on remedying...