Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time when Powell kills a man accidentally, and goes to. jail for life for a murder he has not committed?a murder which can be explained only by the woman who was in the room when it happened and who refuses to give her testimony?through Powell's prison life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow of his past life constantly threatening him but with which he deals effectively?right up to the happy ending there is never a second when suspense has been neglected or overemphasized, or when the telling loses its quick, easy...
Senator Walsh, the Senate's most famed and feared inquisitor, warned him he was risking the fate of Oilman Harry Sinclair, who went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly...
...Charlestown Prison, Boston, Mrs. Edith Barlow's husband wanted his habitual narcotics. Mrs. Barlow stuffed a goodly supply in a rubber finger cot, placed it in her mouth. As she kissed a friendly prisoner, whom in ruse she called her brother, she tongued the drug-stuffed cot into his mouth. A guard caught them...
Judge James H. Sisk, of Cambridge, who tried the proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop for selling an "indecent" book and imposed a jail sentence of thirty days and a fine of $500 has remitted the prison sentence. This was the famous case in which the prosecuting attorney and the judge united to condemn the dishonest and provocative methods by which the Watch and Ward Society procured its evidence. The highest court of the state had just affirmed, as a matter of law, the verdict; but the trial judge will find Cambridge opinion, as well as that of other cities...
...Ohio Prison Fire and Why Are the Young Folks So Thoughtless (Columbia)?Carson Robison drones two stories-with-morals to violin and organ accompaniment. The first ends "God don't want even convicts to die like rats in a hole...