Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly two months ago, Charles R. Forbes, onetime Director of the Veterans' Bureau, entered Leavenworth Prison for conspiracy to defraud the Government in the Veterans' hospital scandal (TIME, March 29), which like the oil scandal spread its shadow over the Harding Administration. His fellow conspirator, John W. Thompson, likewise convicted, did not enter the prison because his lawyers represented that his health was poor. The Court ordered the lawyers to make a final argument in Chicago this week. Last week, however, Mr. Thompson, 64 and worried, died of a heart attack...
...Hammond, indefatigable, courageous, nearly died. Mr. Hammond who had begun to recover was allowed to go to her side, without guard, without bail, not even under parole. After a time it was announced that the leaders would only have to spend 15 years in prison, the others lesser terms. Mark Twain appeared in the Rand and visited the prisoners and told them that after all there was no place where one was so safe from interruption as in jail. At the end of May all but six were allowed to pay $10,000 fine and go free. In mid-June...
...fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene was the same?a repentant maiden condemned for infanticide, the tortured offender dragged relentlessly away by Mephistopheles, and Marguerite carried away high into the sky by white, white angels...
Judge Marcus Kavanaugh of the Chicago Criminal Court announced the completion of a murder survey. His finding was that 170,000 murders had been committed in the U. S. in the last 20 years; that 34,000 murderers have been executed, 18,000 are in prison, and 118,000 are enjoying life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
...Elmira, N. Y., one Fred Hannah, Negro, applied for a marriage license. While the clerk was filling out the forms he discovered that the bride had a husband, just then detained in prison. He refused the license. In two hours Mr. Hannah again applied for permission to get married...