Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received: Sidney I. Rothschild, President of the Wholesale Hatters' Association; C. Ogden Chrisholm, International Prison Commissioner; a delegation of bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; a "delegation from the Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots. ¶ The President let it be known that he would not approve of extending the coastwise shippings laws to the Philippines on the ground that it would bring restrictions on shipping similar to those inflicted by Great Britain on American colonies before the Revolution. ¶The socal whirl became more dervish-like. The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended a dinner given...
...enough other Americans to make up 2,086,764 signed a petition 23 miles long to be sent to the German Government. The German Government after reading the petition will, according to the hopes of 2,086,764 Americans, release Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Griffis, who is in a German prison camp for attempting to kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdoll notorious for escaping the draft...
...enforced exactly as every other law is enforced? There are no conferences to discuss whether the law against burglary should be enforced, or whether the law against bigamy should be enforced, although there are constantly violations of these laws, and surely not all the violators are languishing behind prison bars. It appears that there is some difference between this particular law of prohibition and all the others which have gone before...
Through the Dark. To those who have learned through long acquaintance with the cinema that crooks have hearts of gold, the moral of this film will undoubtedly appeal. A simple boarding school girl assists a criminal to escape from San Quentin prison by a pleasantly incredible device; drawn into his underworld life, she finally regenerates him with her love. On the face of it such a yarn seems almost impossibly cinemesque. Colleen Moore manages to make it plausible in spots...
TULIPS AND CHIMNEYS?E. E. Cummings?Seltzer ($2.00). E. E. Cummings was in a French prison during a great part of the war. His protest took the shape of a highly naturalistic narrative called The Enormous Room. In the present volume we have a collection of his poetry. His work is always distinguished by a rigid adherence to freedom. He would rather die than be usual. The result is a riot of noise and color, of poems sprawling across and around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift...