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Word: prisoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male plant has no potency. Smoking of marijuana cigarets produces a state of intoxication similar to that induced by alcohol, stimulates playfulness, suppresses fear. Thousands are smoked in Harlem, in New Orleans, in other nightlife centres. In New Orleans many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Muggles | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...shore of Lake Superior, cut off from the world by a dense forest, stands Marquette prison, strong, grim, forbidding. In it are confined Michigan's worst criminals?bandits, kidnappers, murderers?for Michigan has no death penalty. Few of them can hope for an early release; many have no hope of ever being allowed to go free. Marquette is a home of desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Desperation gripped four of Marquette's long-term convicts last week. The week before, a kidnapper, Edward Wiles, had died. His last words, whispered to the prison physician, were: "If I die in this hole my pals will wreck the place." Last week the prison physician was away. In his place was a past president of the Michigan Medical Society, Dr. Alfred W. Hornbogen. To Dr. Hornbogen in the prison hospital early one morning came three convicts: Andre Germane, serving 35 to 50 years for wounding a policeman; Leo Duver, a life-term robber; Charles Roseburg, sentenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...guards & police fired pistols, shotguns, machine guns at the factory windows. The three convicts returned the fire. As their ammunition began to run low, failure stared at them. They forced one of the guards to write a note to the warden, demanding his car to take them from the prison, threatening to blow up the building if he refused. Desperado Germano added: "Have plenty of explosives." They threw the note out of the window. Finally the answer came: a tear gas bomb. Another followed. When the third bomb came hurtling through the window Germano said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Police and guards immediately began a search for more weapons in the prison and for an armored car reported seen outside. As the hunt began, two shots rang out in a cell block. The searchers found a guard unhurt and Convict Frank Hohfer, a confederate of the other three, in his cell dead by his own hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Visits Marquette | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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