Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole or commutation. His conduct is constantly under more careful scrutiny than the termer because it has so much more bearing upon his eventual release than is true to the termer. The termer can lose "copper" (prison cant for earnable credits in the form of reduced actual time spent in prison). The lifer, by the very nature of his sentence, cannot lose anything of that kind because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more...
...Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...Francisco General Strike. Investigating Communist Party petitions, vigilant patriots charged that eight circulators had made false attestations, got out warrants for their arrest. Last February one of them, a young woman named Louise Todd, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to one to 14 years in Tehachapi Women's Prison. Embarrassed authorities overlooked six small-fry Reds, but they could not ignore famed Charlotte Anita Whitney. Last fortnight she was brought to trial...
...radicalism by the futility of charity as a method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism...
...matter how few the casualties, one person almost certain not to survive the Ethiopian war has been Lij Yasu, "Child of Jesus," the 38-year-old onetime Emperor of Ethiopia. Deposed by Haile Selassie in 1916, Lij Yasu has since 1926 been a closely guarded prisoner in the fortress of Gara Mulata, well fed, comfortably lodged, but handcuffed night & day to the wrist of a guard. Lest Italy should release him, make him a puppet emperor, it was announced weeks ago by the Emperor that "Child of Jesus" had been moved to the shores of southernmost Lake Rudolf...