Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justice, the National Training School for Boys (abolishing its board of trustees) and Federal Prison Industries...
...whose worthless husband (Tyrone Power) besmirches her name by fleeing justice after he becomes involved in a bond scandal. Rose vows her loyalty and, by sobbing out from the Ziegfeld stage the song My Man, persuades her husband to give himself up, plead guilty and take a five-year prison sentence. My Man was introduced by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice in 1920, when her husband, Nicky Arnstein, was wanted by the police for a stock swindle...
...East Room of the White House, the President received delegates to a National Parole Conference, told them that, with 60-70,000 prisoners coming out of jails and reformatories every year, their handling by the different States is of vital concern to the country. Said he: "We know from experience that parole, when it is honestly and expertly managed, provides better protection for society than does any other method of release from prison...
...hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with the boys (as the Party's flag-bearer), but the Republican police considered him so unimportant that they did not bother to arrest him. While Hitler was serving time in Landsberg Prison and Göring was recovering from his wounds in Sweden, the youthful Heinrich was a student of experimental agriculture at the University of Munich...
Last week, he was visibly glad the strain was over. He made good all but $30,000 of the loss, offered his house to reduce the deficit further, said he wanted to take his medicine. Impressed, the judge let him off with two to five years in State prison...