Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write a story a week, for $100 apiece. Then about 40, 0. Henry was heavyset, thick-featured, brown-haired, courteous, extremely reserved about his past and generally silent in company. Author Williams had known him for years before he learned that the short-story writer had served a prison term in Ohio for embezzling a bank. The short-story writer and the cub reporter quickly became friends, with Williams showing O. Henry the city, standing with him at bars, listening to the stories of bums, streetwalkers, cranks that gave O. Henry the material of much of his fiction...
Atrocity-of-the-Week was reported from the north coast of Spain where mixed Anarchist-Basque-Red forces were still holding Bilbao (TIME, Sept. 21). Indignant at White air bombing of the city, Anarchist Militiawomen swarmed onto one of the three "prison ships" in the harbor aboard which White hostages were kept. Flying at these unarmed prisoners with knives, bayonets, and guns, the lady Anarchists killed a total of 220 of whom 30 were priests, mutilating and gashing until finally stopped by the intervention of Spanish Civil Guards. Theoretically these Guards were as much against the Whites as were...
Sentenced. Thomas Alton Tully, 25, son of hard-boiled Hobo Novelist Jim Tully; to a 25-year prison term; for rape; in Los Angeles...
...grandfather to the intellectual life, by the doctor's wife to sophisticated social and artistic worlds, Sister remains in the wilderness after her grandfather dies. The villagers make fun of her, her highbrow friends desert her, and she often goes hungry. Her girlhood sweetheart Mitch Holt serves a prison term in Atlanta, returns to the River, marries her, settles down. Infidelities, doubts, constant hardships mar their marriage, but Sister, pained more by Mitch's growing contentment than by his occasional wildness, dreads most of all her power to tame him, fights the tendency to do so in herself...
This is a new departure amplifying and extending the work of the Social Service Committee. Small groups will study and discuss various aspects of these problems under the direction of members of the Massachusetts State Civil Service. Investigations into prison conditions and participation in reform work will afford practical application of information acquired in conference...