Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Kline faces the penalty of a year in prison, $500 fine and removal from office. Both defendants asked retrial...
...minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo witch-doctor he will shoot his sixth, silver bullet...
...Though the jury recommended leniency, the judge was, under the law, compelled to impose the maximum sentence, leaving the minimum to be fixed by the Territorial Prison Board...
...hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above...
...club and as gathered from the personal interviews of several Radcliffe and Harvard students with the imprisoned defendent. The account pictures a woman, foreign born, accused of attempted overthrow of the United States government, unable to be legally deported, held in a hospital having contracted tuberculosis at the immigration prison, and what is of more importance-held by an immigration commissioner who has it in her power to recommend release but who refuses to do so in spite of the insistent and ever increasing demands of not only the members of the textile union but of every class of society...