Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salengro's hard-boiled father, after killing a man in a riot spent the rest of his life in prison at hard labor for manslaughter. His wife was accused some years ago by Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever...
Cynical Philadelphians foresaw a fight to have the indictments quashed, scant possibility of convictions, much less of prison sentences, if & when the cases come to trial. Much talk about political spite work behind the indictments rose from the Union League and Rittenhouse clubs. And the Republican Ledger sprang to the bankers' defense with a story reporting the indictments under the head: ACCUSED DENIED RIGHT TO EXPLAIN IN MORTGAGE QUIZ...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...
...from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, painted by Ralph Earl while he was in prison for debt. Though the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred in 1804, handsome Mrs. Hamilton lived half a century after it, died in New York...
...Oklahoma three weeks ago a half-dozen jailbirds ran away from prison to escape sterilization provided by law. In California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...