Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alike no matter what their business or calling"; could not be said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years at San Quentin prison. Said she: "I have nothing to complain of in comparison to Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Joliet, Ill., a priest driving an automobile asked permission to pass through the State prison grounds "for a short cut." He was seized and, after a violent brawl, unfrocked, and seen to be no priest. The automobile contained "a can of soup" (nitro-glycerin), loaded pistol, cartridge belt, two suits of clothes, a blue-print of the prison...
...valley of the Atchafalaya river, flowing through swamp districts of Louisiana, bands of outlaws looked forward to starvation or surrender. Houseboats guarded them from the flood, but food grew constantly scarcer. Rescue meant prison...
...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...
...there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison for preaching the gospel in Edinburgh...