Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flour which she sprinkled in the air to fog their pictures. She provided more copy by accusing her neighbors of spying on her and swearing at them when she saw them on the street. Meanwhile two of the under-worldlings indicted with her were given stiff prison sentences...
...part in the killing of five Democratic marchers in a 1934 election eve parade at Kalayres, Pa., that mining town's Republican Boss Joseph J. Bruno, onetime county detective, was sentenced to three life terms in prison (TIME, Nov. 19, 1934). Since his last trial, Boss Bruno has been confined in Pottsville's county jail, awaiting removal to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. One morning last week he asked to be permitted to visit a dentist, was motored downtown by a guard named Guy Irving. Finding the dentist's curb occupied, amiable Guard Irving said he told...
...from the Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think Pacifist von Ossietzky, whom they...
...Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father's name, Mio Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets a clue 15 years later when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected at the time of knowing something about the murder - was never...
Circumstances complicate his mission. One is that when he meets Margo in the square outside her house, they fall in love with each other. The others are that both Judge Gaunt (Edward Ellis), who sentenced Romagna, and Trock Estrella, just out of prison and dying of consumption, have also seen newspaper stories which suggest the advisability of reopening the case. All three-the killer, the avenger and the blundering judge-arrive at the Esdras basement tenement the same night...