Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questioning, which lasted a majority of the 48 hours, I was told that I was 'chestny chelovyek'-an honest fellow-and that I was to be released. . . . The commandant of the prison actually carried my bag downstairs...
...almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...
Bernard C. McGuire. associate of Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to violating interstate lottery laws in conducting a Loyal Order of Moose lottery in 1930. He was sentenced to a year in prison. Senior Davis' retrial on similar charges was scheduled to take place this week...
Pleading guilty to four assault charges, Zangara was sentenced to 80 years in prison by Judge E. C. Collins. "Don't be stingy, give me 100 years!" he shouted...
Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...