Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declined to up income, bank and corporation taxes, vote a State wages & hours bill, reform the antiquated State prison system, regulate professional lobbyists...
Princip and his fellow conspirators were tried, convicted and sentenced.* In 1918 he died in prison. By the following year his two shots had caused the deaths of some 19,000,000 men in the world's greatest...
...England, pale & frail after seven months in prison (to which Nazis sent him on a charge of sex perversion), Tennist Baron Gottfried von Cramm said that the U. S. had denied him a visa to compete at Forest Hills. Reason: U. S. law bans people convicted of a crime involving "moral turpitude...
Died. Eugene Weidmann, 31, amatory German murderer-for-profit who in his haunts near Paris killed six people, including Brooklyn Dancer Jean de Koven; under the guillotine; at dawn, in sight of 10,000 sensation seekers, outside Versailles prison...
...chest. So French soldiers are among the most decorated fighting men in the world. Finding that Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...