Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public platform. In fact unique is no word for it. 'A great humanitarian who never signed a Death Warrant' but Commitments to the Insane Asylum instead, where ex-condemned on escaping would return on their own volition because the "grub" was so good. 'The State Prison was transformed from a place of horror' to where the convicts were fed on Kansas flour instead of the soft indigestible (4 out of 5) local grown wheat which was good enough for the poor damn ranchers who only paid the taxes. 'His splendid system of roads are famous...
Scurrying Paris reporters sped back and forth, last week, between the pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even...
...Story. Much as he liked his German guards and his fellow Russian prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched...
When underworldlings and a Canton policeman slew Don R. Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.), Police Chief Seranus Lengel was tried for corruption, sentenced to prison. He got a new trial, an acquittal. Last week he was reinstated as Canton's police chief...
...managed a glee club as well as his smuggling racket; when accused of the latter he broke down and wept piteously, asserting that he had received $100 for each packet and had carried only twelve in the last two years. Overjoyed, the customs men hauled him off to prison...