Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor resolution censuring the Government for its part in the recent jailing of 12 noted Communists (TIME, Dec. 7) was voted down by the House 351 to 122. During the debate former Labor Premier Macdonald cried: "These 12 men were put in prison after a trial conducted like a general election . . . after a most improper whoop." The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, noted die-hard Conservative, replied to Mr. Macdonald's attack less pugnaciously than is his wont. He remarked: "My attention haying been called to these Communists, their activities were merely referred to the Attorney General." Attorney...
...said, "Lieutenant Winthorpe was forced to land on a German flying field. He was taken prisoner, but there was delay in sending him to a prison camp. The Germans immediately dropped a note on Winthorpe's squadron saying he was safe. The German officers supplied him with clothing, played tennis with him, went hunting with him, and he had a wonderful time for a fortnight. Finally, when the time came for him to go, all the officers petitioned the squadron commander to permit him to remain. The commander referred it to the higher command, which refused the request...
...whom he was arraigned, the thieves in the jail where he was lodged, Vespaciano admitted, indeed flagrantly proclaimed that he was the Christ, returned to earth as he had promised. Clearly, then, he was guilty of whatever it was that he was guilty of. Last week he went to prison...
...Fiske, my wife [Grace George], and my daughter [Alice] have to go out into the sticks. ... I am not here to speak for the producers who degrade the drama. . . . I'm for putting the men who produce these musical plays showing bare legs and bare women in state's prison. ... I represent the clean, legitimate drama. I'm not representing the cabarets, thank...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, former warden of Sing Sing Prison and the leading prison reformer in the country, will speak at 8 o'clock tonight at Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...