Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former overlord of Chicago booze and prostitution was taken some 400 miles from Alcatraz to the Federal correctional prison on Terminal Island, off San Pedro, Calif. There he will be safer from fellow-prisoners' attempts to kill him, and will be treated for paresis, which makes him periodically violent. By good behavior and payment of his $20,000 balance due, he can leave Terminal Island November 19, unless paresis makes it advisable to lock him up for life...
...Freshmen yesterday escaped prison sentences on charges of larceny and drunkenness, when the former charge was dismissed, and the latter placed on file in East Cambridge Court...
...Department of Justice, the youngest (45) Cabinet member can point to studies at University of Michigan (law degree, 1914), Lincoln's Inn, London and Trinity College, Dublin. As a chief assistant U. S. District Attorney (1920-23), his greatest feat was sending two big Army grafters to prison. He served seven years (1923-30) on the bench of Detroit's Recorder's Court, handling criminal cases with the enlightening aid of a psychiatrist and a sociologist, his own innovation. In two terms as Detroit's mayor, three years as Governor-General of the Philippines...
Famed California Convict Thomas Joseph Mooney, anticipating a full pardon by Governor Culbert Olson (due about January 15), made plans for the future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
...Entitled Ecraser l'Infàme ("Crush the Infamous"), these etchings are by a 33-year-old Austrian, Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper, an "Aryan" and devout Roman Catholic, who, in the winter of 1933-34, spent three and a half months in a Nazi political prison on a charge of high treason...