Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed, "disgraced," "ruined...
...incited, by the nun. Mother Concepcion, herself, explained that four years ago cruel laws had driven her from her convent, and that her house had become a centre where people liked to gather for spiritual consolation, denied that she had ever counselled violence, threw open her blue prison blouse and showed reporters a cross branded on her breast, said: "In suffering there is redemption. I've been happy all the time I've been in jail-would give drop by drop my blood, if I could end this conflict...
...They may be interested in aviation but they don't care a continental damn about prisons abroad," was last week the particular opinion which one U. S. citizen had about U. S. citizens. The one was alert, freckled B. Ogden Chisolm who was testily quitting the post of U. S. International Prison Commissioner, to which President Coolidge appointed...
Many a citizen, not unwilling to lend an ear to the plight of "prisons abroad," nevertheless wondered why the President had ever appointed one of their number especially to deal with such a subject. The answer is: In 1878, there were a dozen international conferences. One, at Berlin, had to do with peace (Disraeli v. Bis marck). Another, no longer mentioned in history books, had to do with prisons and resulted in a commission to which Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, etc. each contributed a commissioner. Mr. Chisolm was the U. S.'s fourth contribution. To succeed him, the President must...
Meanwhile, outgoing Commissioner Chisolm advised the President that prison conditions are so radically different in different countries that "I couldn't reach any com mon ground or make any progress." He also flayed the U. S. for giving him only a "measly" appropriation...