Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vasile Murgulescu, 32, onetime secretary of the Rumanian Senate, was sentenced in Manhattan to serve from three to ten years in Sing Sing. He was convicted of forging signatures on travelers' checks stolen from a U. S. citizen in Paris. Vasile Murgulescu is also wanted in San Francisco on a Federal charge, has been convicted of forgery in Paris, Rome, was once deported from Vienna...
...University to inaugurate next fall a training course for prison wardens, the executive heads of penal and similar institutions, seems likely to meet with the hearty approval of penologists. Two of the most active men in the field in the vicinity of New York, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing and Commissioner of Corrections Richard C. Patterson, Jr. of New York City, today were enthusiastic over the possibilities of such a course, according to the New York Evening Post...
...course overlook the fact that a number of penal officials without the benefits of a college and graduate education have done outstanding work in the field. The names of Commissioner Herbert C. Parsons of the Massachusetts Board of Probation and Warden Lawes of Sing-Sing readily occur to one in that connection. But for the most part prison wardens, a large number of whom have worked up from the position of prison guard, have less than a high school education...
...March". Next R. S. Hurlbut '34 will play on the accordion, and the Gold Coast Orchestra will give a few selections. Following those will be a vocal trio composed of L. G. Thurber '34, Guy Hayes '34, and F. F. Cary '34, assisted by Atreus Von Club will sing "A Winter Song", "Old Man Noah", and "Heidelberg...
...Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...