Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Established a large-scale prison building program, a new parole system...
When governors meet, high talk of State's Rights is inevitable. Much such talk was heard last week in Salt Lake City where 23 Governors and seven Governors' proxies were assembled for what has become an annual meeting. State's Rights in public domain, in prison-made labor, in Prohibition enforcement were the themes. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, who always tries to have something new and notable to say, shifted the talk to Federal Responsibility?made a speech to the effect that the U. S. must some day soon provide unemployment insurance for its citizens...
...Folsom Prison Billings, small, brown-haired, looking younger than his 37 years, remarked: "Well, that's that. It doesn't bother me. I've been here 14 years and I'm good for a longer stretch...
...rebels, they stormed, like a salesman's convention, Every jail in the land that was worthy of mention, Till only a person of power and pull Could get into prison-the prisons were full...
...deviser of many a scheme intended to restore the franc to par, who in 1928 resigned from the French Senate under charges of issuing bad checks to make up losses in the New York stockmarket, for which crime he was given a sentence, later suspended, of two years in prison (TIME, July 22); suddenly, in poverty; in Paris...