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Word: prisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Olson's Luck | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: One Morning in Bosnia | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Dry Goods | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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