Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe it was greed on the part of Marcus and Singer that led them into their difficulties. ... I am going to sentence Marcus and Saul Singer to State's prison [Sing Sing] for from three to six years." He sentenced Son Herbert to the penitentiary, three months to three years...
...three discredited bankers were marched back to their cells in the Tombs, impoverished depositors of the Bank of U. S. gathered in the hallways, booed and hissed them. Back in the Tombs they munched egg and cheese sandwiches from the prison commissary while outside most New York citizens felt justice had been done...
...years, yet he is to be seen frequently riding about Belgrade in an automobile in the evening! My father and my cousin were murdered. My mother, my brother, my brother-in-law and myself are living in exile. Another brother-in-law died mysteriously in a military prison. Now you may understand why my thesis is entitled 'June...
...stone. Warden Hill gloomed. For 1) John Davison Rockefeller had given him the rooster, and 2) eggs from Murphy's family of five Japanese hens brought Warden Hill $5 apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according to Warden Hill, those sly buyers broke...
...told of big bears trapped, fretting behind the bars of higher prices. One venerable member of the Exchange was heard to sing that old bull war chant of the Chicago Wheat Pit: "He who sells what isn't his'n must buy it back or go to prison." And even the most sanguine of optimists was willing to concede that the song was applicable in any market last week, that much of the recovery's violence was due to the running-in of bears who for months have sold "what isn't their...