Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny while he was Secretary of the Interior, Prisoner No. 6991 has behaved himself well, should, with good time off, get out May 8. Still unpaid is his $100,000 fine. If he is unable to pay it, he will have to remain another 30 days in prison and take the pauper's oath. Prison medical facilities, the Board of Parole felt, were adequate for treating the heart trouble, chronic tuberculosis, chronic pleurisy and arthritis which many of his friends expected to kill Prisoner No. 6991 before...
Mahatma Gandhi smiled a smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing...
...detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces a doorway; he cannot write unless he can look up and see an exit. His writing provides him a mental exit. These Restless Heads, concerned with Poictesme only in introspect, is his first book written over...
...Army life in an Indo-Chinese penal colony. Ann Harding suffers the difficulties customary for heroines so situated: her husband (Melvyn Douglas) in his own phrase is "going to pieces." A Negro minion kills the admirer (Adolphe Menjou) with whom she endeavors to escape to Paris. There follows a prison riot in which Douglas redeems his prestige by switching his rebellious charges with a stock-whip. Good shot: the Negro servant looking mournfully at Ann Harding after he has murdered Menjou...
...Graphic explained its "composograph" (a famed old Graphic device which had fallen into disuse during Publisher Macfadden's absence) in a subsequent issue: "It is a prison rule that no cameras are allowed in the execution chamber. The Graphic's editors would not wish to print the actual photograph of the execution in any event." But the Graphic's editors did their best to make the full-page picture look as much as possible like a repetition of the Daily News's exploit of printing an actual photograph of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair...