Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...using the mails to defraud, Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston was sentenced this week to serve six to 18 months in prison, pay a $1,000 fine. The Mayor, who is also a Massachusetts Congressman, and an old hand at dodging the rap, quailed: "I have never begged for mercy in my life. ... I don't do it now. But I do ask for justice." But he wasn't beaten yet-until he has taken a Supreme Court appeal, he will remain on hand to help govern his town & country...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...dingy courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square was crowded with G.I.s. On its 48th day, the trial of a prison guard from the U.S. Army's loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield was still a big attraction for men who remembered the planned brutalities, the beatings, the dosing with castor oil, which had made Lichfield infamous (TIME...
...Pieck called for national unity and informed the Nazi small fry that they were welcome as comrades. Said he: "We call on all the little members of the former Nazi party who committed no crimes . . . penitent, nominal Nazis. . . ." Among the three thousand people who jammed Berlin's massive, prison-like Radio Building, there were cries of: "We want no Nazis...
Fortnight ago San Quentin's doors swung open and ex-Convict Stiles, who had tried to keep his mother from knowing about his prison sentence, found him self surrounded by eager sob-sisters and reporters. He was also the reluctant hero of a mushy radio program which stressed his San Quentin record. To add to his troubles, the Navy seemed reluctant to sponsor his "invention." The National Research Council was looking into it, but thought the hand did not differ materially from several others of the same type...