Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...
North Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
California had several interesting little situations going on at once. Governor Richardson was fighting to have one E. A. ("Big Hutch") Hutchings, Los Angeles bunko man, sent back to San Quentin to finish a prison term from which he was strangely paroled at a secret meeting of the prison directors last year. Up in the Imperial Valley they were investigating the fate of large public sums belonging to the county irrigation bureau. Property owners in Los Angeles sued the city and various contractors for alleged cost-boosting on harborside improvements...
Wrathful, gimlet-eyed, the warden rose in his might, furiously waved a prison menu,* sent down word they need expect no leniency, added that they would "find the mules pretty tough eating; and, anyhow, it is cheaper to buy more mules than to feed the mutineers...
Author Williamson, only 32, has already been hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newspaper reporter, wrestling instructor, prison official (finger prints), social worker, Harvard M. A., professor, translator, research ethnologist and author of a first novel (Run Sheep Run) that was universally hailed as "impressive, fascinating, vigorous, sinister, virile, etc., etc." He was born of mixed Welsh†, French, Irish and Norwegian stock on an Indian reservation. The collection of novels he intends to write he calls "The American Panorama...