Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends of the Governor said he plans to make his entry into Washington, after an official canvass on July 14, in typical O'Daniel style, escorted by his dome-topped sound truck (a replica of Texas' Capitol), his famed string band, and Texas Rose to sing the Governor's song, Beautiful Texas. Along the way, he expects to stop in Kansas, where he grew up, at Malta, Ohio, where he was born...
After 21 years in Sing Sing, Warden Lewis E. Lawes this week announced that, like most of the prison's inmates, he now wanted to retire, "to devote myself to many causes which have long interested me." Among them will be more sound books (20,000 Years in Sing Sing) and articles on penology, perhaps a university job, social-service work among boys...
...noxious duty Mr. Lawes will escape is witnessing the execution of two prisoners whose attempted escape last April was the first violent outbreak at Sing Sing since 1920. Required by law to witness executions, but a lifelong enemy of capital punishment, the Warden always turned his head, bowed it at the last moment...
...sake; being finical seemed to pay. When he brought the airy satire of George S. Kaufman to Broadway his thoughts were not on the improvement of the theater's breed but on the box office. In Depression, when he was putting on shows like Of Thee I Sing, he cannily observed: "People like to find that they can laugh at important things and institutions...
Richard Whitney, the ex-Stock Exchange president who became Sing Sing's best-known convict, came up for parole this week, hoped to get out Aug. 11 after serving three years and four months of his five-to-ten-year embezzlement sentence. He has been a model prisoner, and a parole has been recommended by the judge who sentenced...