Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution of the United States. He was promptly arrested and released on $500 bond. Mayor George E. Cryer had refused permission for the meeting, and denied Sinclair's " constitutional rights," charging that...
...strangest of song recitals was given here the other day. The soloist was a recently released convict who was billed with no further name than his prison number -562. He sang half a dozen songs in a magnificent tenor. One of these, dedicated to his wife, was a' member of a group of 150 compositions that he wrote in prison...
...presided at the meeting, and declared that the most real tribute to the services of the Volunteers came from the unknown men and women who could say "We were hungry and you fed us; thirsty and you gave us to drink; naked and you clothed us; sick and in prison and you visited us." President Harding, who was prevented from speaking by pressure of official business, wired: "There are few parallels in history where husband and wife have jointly and severally made such a notable contribution to human uplift...
...additional half day each week will be devoted to visiting points of sociological interest, including Ellis Island, Blackwell's Island, the Salvation Army Home for Men, Bowery Y. M. C. A., the Jerry McAuley Mission, the New York Stock Exchange, and Sing Sing Prison...
...meantime the ex-Patriarch Tikon languishes in a Moscow prison awaiting a civil trial on the charge of opposing the Bolshevik regime. The date of the trial is not yet known. A meeting of the people's commisars took place, however, and vainly tried to settle both the date of the trial and the extent of the sentence. Most of the commisars were in favor of the death sentence, but Georges Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, protested vigorously. He argued that such a sentence would result in aggravating the boycott against Russia; he suggested that the death sentence might...