Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Employers may not dismiss a "directed worker," nor "hire or try to hire" new personnel except through the Government. Maximum punishment for infractions: ?100 ($400) fine or three months in prison. Cooed Minister Isaacs: ". . . It will be necessary to force only a small minority to accept essential jobs against their will...
...York, practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
Hang Out Flags. At Sing Sing Prison, Warden William E. Snyder had happy news for the citizens of The Bronx: not a single one of them, he beamed, had been put in his prison during the entire month of August...
...guys I name they are in prison, all but one, he went to the chair. His name was Earl Parks. I even went to prison myself ... for the Jackson Park murder in 1940. . . . I got out in June '46. It looks as if that sure have been a lessing to me don't it. But it wasn...
...member of the Republican Government: "When are you going to let Tan Malaka out of jail?" "I don't know," said the official. "You don't know?" asked the traveler. "Well," said the official, "it's hard to say. You see, he was thrown into Cheribon prison a year ago last July and I don't think he's been given anything to eat since then...