Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scheduled for trial for betraying military secrets this week, Harry Thompson faced a possible 20-year prison sentence instead of the death which might be his if the nation were at war. As for Toshio Miyazaki, the State Department merely announced that it had served no representations on Japan. Playing up to their part in the elaborate diplomatic game which calls for blank official ignorance about the whole business of spies and spying, Imperial Navy officials in Tokyo professed themselves eager to help the U. S. if they could, readily admitted that their roster included a Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki...
Unpopular with other prisoners at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary because of his wealth and scrupulous good behavior, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone was attacked by the most desperate of his fellow convicts, a bankrobber named James C. Lucas, leader of the prison riots last January which Capone refused to join. Catching Capone at work in the prison laundry, Lucas plunged a pair of scissors into his back. Whirling, Capone saved himself from serious injury, fought off Lucas until guards rescued him. Sobbed the onetime U. S. Public Enemy No. 1: "Why don't these fellows like...
Amid thunderous cheers Rotarians elected as their international president for the coming year a Nashville lawyer named William R. Manier Jr., who has been an active Rotarian for 20 years. They listened to Amos O. Squire, consulting physician at New York State's Sing Sing Prison, declare: "Only rarely have I known of [Boy] Scouts landing in penal institutions." The Rotarians liked that because they are earnest supporters of boys' organizations. Then the Rotarians debated and tabled a resolution favoring prompt completion of the Inter-American Highway (see p. 44), debated and adopted a resolution "expressing interest...
...deny executive clemency to Arthur Gooch, Oklahoma convict who, in escaping from prison, kidnapped a policeman. Convict Gooch thereby became the first man to hang for kidnapping under the Lindbergh law. Said the President...
...well with the Indians. Then he ran foul of the law. An Indian friend of his was killed, and when Jimmy went to town to set justice on the murderer's track, he himself was inexplicably clapped in jail. After a few weeks in prison he escaped, took refuge with the friendly Indians...