Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States into the war Mr. Baldwin declared himself a conscientious objector and denounced the draft. For this he was imprisoned in Newark, N. J., under the provisions of the Selective Service Act. It is practically from this experience only that he has gained his knowledge of prison systems that Mr. Thomas Mott Osborne acquired by voluntarily entering Sing as a convict...
...potatoes on Christendom be magically transformed" as suggested by his namesake, Mr. Boobie. Nor could he nor his admirers take offense at this delicate demonstration of the pathetic fallacy. "Sketches in Pleasant Russia" is more in the undergraduate vein of burlesque, but the dialogue and dialect are good. "Prison Cruelty" is well named, such things should be avoided even in the Atlantic. And the dullness of the portraits of American Women is emphasized rather than enlivened, although its style is admittedly well executed...
Roger Baldwin, noted New York criminologist; will speak at the only remaining meeting at present planned, on "Prison Systems...
...Atlanta, Georgia, home of Professor Dubb, who is connected with the University of Georgia. Professor Dubb is about to set out on an expedition to Tambelo, to investigate the ancestry of the natives, when he is unexpectedly joined by two Yale graduates who have just escaped from the Federal Prison. This upsets his plans considerably, but the party finally succeeds in starting on the expedition, and the scene is shifted to the tropical island of Tambelo. Here the Professor's family meets with various adventures in the form of dancing girls, intoxicating cigarettes, and bandits, but survives them...
...What happened in the Vanzetti trial is no new story--it is a repetition of practices in the Mooney trial, the Centralia trial, and the prosecution of Sidney Flowers in Los Angeles. Mooney and Billings went to prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...