Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would if a Negro was charged with raping a white woman . . . [and] show the Negro that he can get justice in court." The jurors did. They found 30-year-old John C. Howard guilty and fixed his penalty (an Alabama jury's prerogative) at 45 years in prison. Next day Howard's cousin, 21-year-old Jack Oliver, also charged with rape of a Negro woman, pleaded guilty, got the same stiff sentence. (Almost all Negroes convicted of raping Alabama white women have been sentenced to death...
...seen Szymon Goldberg ten years before might reasonably have been surprised that he had not changed more. In Java on a concert tour, he and his wife had been interned by the Japanese in 1943 as Polish nationals. In 2½ years he had been in 14 prison camps, separated from his wife for all but five months (she managed to keep his Stradivarius...
Finland's Socialist government did not go out of its way to make the old Socialist leader's prison term uncomfortable. He got paper and writing material from his home, also any extra food he wished. "But I had to cut down smoking," Tanner sighed to reporters. "I used to smoke five feet a day [15 four-inch panatelas]; in prison I had to be content with only five four-inchers daily." Once a week the prisoner held a conference in his cell with Socialist colleagues in the government...
...puts a reverse twist on the old story of the G.I. who comes home from the wars and hires his colonel to sweep out the office. This time, the colonel (Glenn Ford) returns to Colorado territory after the Civil War, becomes a judge, and proceeds to mop up the prison floors with men formerly in the cavalry with...
Incompatibility. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Audrey Bougher, serving a life term in prison, thought things over, divorced her husband, also a lifer...