Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional Sit-Downers. Visiting a sit-down at Frank & Seder's department store one night, Governor Murphy recognized one of the sitters as a "man whom, when the Governor was judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court, he had sentenced to prison for forgery. Investigation disclosed that the ex-convict and ten of his companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action...
Next day "moderate" shocks visited the Midwest, which, unlike California, lies far outside the world belt of earthquake frequency. In Indianapolis, Miss Lamar Montani was rolled out of bed and iron bars in the Bell Telephone offices were jounced off tables. In a prison at Jackson, Mich., convicts were thrown into a panic. In Anna, Ohio, chimneys knocked down by quakes last fortnight and subsequently repaired, tumbled again. Shaken residents of Dayton heard, or thought they heard, a deep rumble. In parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ontario, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky, furniture danced, dishes rattled, pictures fell, canned goods...
...Angeles, when Samuel Whitaker was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, he flung up his arms, cried: "If I am guilty of this horrible crime, may God strike me dead before I get to my cell." Before he reached his cell at San Quentin Prison, Samuel Whitaker suffered a heart attack, fell dead...
...Henry Suydam who took the lid of secrecy off the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, made arrangements for spot-news releases on happenings in that famed and gloomy jail. As a pressagent, Assistant Suydam knew what Washington correspondents wanted because he had been a successful one himself. Brooklyn-born and Dutch-speaking, he was World War Correspondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. He ran the Eagle's Washington Bureau from 1922 until he left to help out Homer Cummings. In his old office in the Colorado Building, Henry Suydam was a neighbor of the Newark News...
...temperamental Annapolis graduate who was cashiered from the Navy ten years ago appeared in court, paled as he heard the return he would have to make for the $20,000 he was paid to betray his country: ". . . not less than four years nor more than twelve years in prison...