Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court later, had been prevented, as part of Maury's cleanup, from signing bonds for vice case defendants. Mr. Shook having shaken up some other interesting combinations, emerged from his laboratory with several indictments, on charges of paying and conspiring to pay the poll taxes of others (a prison offense in Texas). Most interesting name on the list was Mayor Maverick...
Frost. It was a States reporter who last June unearthed the scandal in Louisiana's administration that sent President James Monroe Smith of Louisiana State University to prison, and so far has brought four other convictions in New Orleans alone on charges of fraud. One day Reporter Meigs Frost (who once got honorable mention for a Pulitzer Prize) heard that WPA materials from the University's carpentry shops were going into a private home at Metairie, a rich New Orleans suburb in adjoining Jefferson Parish...
...From a personality test) Q.: "Do you think that this school is run as if it were a prison?" Reviewer's comment: "It is questionable whether high-school students would have the courage and the desire to answer such questions honestly...
Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner...
...Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...