Word: quentin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifer in Sing Sing. But, I am a ''Lifer" in San Quentin, which, to all intents and purposes, is the same thing. But when you state that ''time" is unimportant to a "lifer," you merely admit an unconsidered contemplation of a "lifer's" outlook.* As a matter of fact, time is of more importance to a "lifer" who is alive than it is to the ordinary termer. The termer has a more or less definite time of freedom to look forward to. But the lifer has constantly before him the vision of a possible parole...
...were plenty of buttons, pressure on which could make the wheel and ball "behave." To Paris from London again crossed last week minor Croupier Maurice Peterson, chief of the Ethiopian section of the British Foreign Office, to dicker further with his French colleague, minor Croupier Count Rene de Saint-Quentin. They have been in substantial agreement for weeks on a formula of "honorable" division of Ethiopia "within the framework of the League of Nations." Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, however, is for keeping the ball of sanctions going a while longer and Dictator-Mussolini is all for faster spinning...
...Paris its technical and colonial aspects have now been negotiated outside the fevered atmosphere of Britain's General Election by Mr. Maurice Peterson, the quietly efficient British Foreign Office civil servant charged with Ethiopian affairs. Mr. Peterson and his French counterpart, Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, placed at the disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next logical step was to get "The Deal's" elements up into a respectable League atmosphere, and for this purpose the Great Powers turned to "Dear Little Belgium." Hot from Brussels to Geneva went Belgian...
...third time Tom Mooney passed out of San Quentin Prison last week, was ferried under guard across the bay to San Francisco, where he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing the local Preparedness Day parade in 1916, with a loss of ten lives. So often has the militant U. S. Labor movement thrust his case into court in a consistently unsuccessful effort to exonerate it and him, free him from a life sentence, that today Tom Mooney has come to think of himself as an important public personage in his own right. Now the Mooney lawyers...
...public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable book of Arabian Nights for romance, adventure, love, excitement, passion, bravery, thrills and courageous...