Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time. In 1935, in the Cherry Hill prison of Philadelphia, he died. His modest brother Joe was with him at the time...
...fond of the Cherry Hill prison, having been in it pretty consistently for 20 years. Shortly afterward he was set free-75 and still surprisingly spry. Two months later he was arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough...
Last week Harrison George, who spent 1918-23 in Leavenworth Prison for too violent pacifism, launched the San Francisco daily People's World on $33.000 raised by California Communists. After Chicago's Midwest Daily Record gets under way February 12, People's World will be western link in a cross-country chain of Communist papers anchored to New York's Daily Worker. Almost bare of advertising, first week's issues of People's World gave 20,000 readers a generous three cents' worth of bellicose headlines about "SHIPOWNERS PLOT LOCKOUT" and "Portrait...
...book, noticing at the same taking voluminous notes, that she really was beautiful, and that he initials were "J> P." He pretended to be working by flipping a page over now and then, but soon gave up and said in a send-bored voice, "Going into the prison business?" "No, Radcliffe," she replied with sweet smile...
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...