Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Peter J. Curtis was sentenced to grey-walled Clinton Prison at Dannemora, N. Y. for robbery, he was a sign-painter. Instead of planning a jailbreak, Convict Curtis found his escape on canvas, painting in the barred funnel of light in his cell. Last year the warden gave him a studio to teach other convicts his idea of escape (TIME...
...work at reforestation, sent it to the President. ¶ Passed (299-to-29) a bill making it a crime to publish secret State documents deemed prejudicial to the safety or interest of the U. S.; sent it to the Senate. The measure, carrying a penalty of ten years in prison and $10,000 fine, was mysteriously rushed through at the request of the Administration, presumably to prevent publication by a onetime Government cryptographer of secret Wartime information. ¶ Passed (153-to-59) a Senate bill removing limitations on physicians' prescriptions for whiskey; sent it to the President...
...Chamlee who supplied Defendant Patterson with the horseshoe, at his request. The other defendants-Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Olin Montgomery, Andy Wright, Willie Robertson, Ozie Powell-thought rabbits' feet would "make them sleep easier." The two minors, Roy Wright (Andy's brother) and Eugene Williams, held in prison for two years as material witnesses, got rabbits' feet...
...victory outmodes many a sorry practice of the past decade. John Doctor need no longer risk prison by selling his prescription blanks to druggists. The amateur cellarer need no longer cut a pint of genuine, drugstore rye with alcohol, water and sherry to get a gallon of drink with a palatable rye flavor. The druggist may cast off his furtiveness, again function as a respectable businessman...
...more sensible move was to rush correspondents to the city prison where Police Chief Rudolph Diehls showed them various Communist leaders that had been reported beaten to death, executed or exiled at different times in the past week. In the first cell sat Ernst Thalmann, Communist candidate for President in last year's election (TIME, April 18, 1932). Like a guide, in the zoo the Police Chief orated...