Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabinet, First of all he had a Cabinet. Five of the members had chafed in prison with him after the Jaca insurrection, had sat glumly in a row with him at their trial last month. They were some of the Government's most potent members last week...
...Burke" is in prison awaiting trial for murder. I saw Mr. Porter driving his Studebaker President yesterday. I enjoy your magazine a great deal. Occasionally I use it in the high school, in summarizing some important current event
...Preparedness Day parade. Ten people were killed, 40 wounded. Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, labor agitators who had been prominent in unionizing street railway employes, were convicted of the crime. For the past 15 years liberal and labor organizations have been trying to get them out of prison. Thousands of dollars have been spent in propagandizing their cause, a thorn in the side of every California governor. Precedent is the first play in their behalf...
Inmates of the Maine State Prison rioted this month when their letter-writing privileges were curtailed (TIME, April 6). In Manhattan last week. Commissioner Bernard J. Fagan of the New York State Division of Parole told a Welfare Council meeting that "through correspondence, prisoners [at Sing Sing] join matrimonial agencies and sometimes have replies from women all over the nation, many of them splendid women. . . . The prisoners give only the street address of the prison in Ossining and often elaborate on the views from the windows and the beauty of the Hudson River. . . . The unsuspecting feminine reader enjoys the letter...
...were working side by side in a large tractor plant in Kharkov with Robinson, an American Negro, objected to his eating in the same dining room with them. When brought to trial, their fellow-workers found them guilty of race discrimination and sentenced them to two years in prison or expulsion from the country for twelve years...