Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warden Joseph William Sanford of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta recently assembled his 1,000 convict laborers, told them that U.S. defense required a speedup in the production of uniforms, tents, powder bags, other Army and Navy items manufactured in the prison shops. Last week the prisoners' monthly publication (The Atlantian) reported the response: a hearty cheer for Warden Sanford, a doubling of overtime, a 100% speed-up in production...
...trumpeter swan, largest migratory U. S. waterfowl, was believed extinct in 1907. But last fall the Department of Interior counted about 212 in Montana and Wyoming. Its chief enemy is the coyote. But last year a game warden found five dead trumpeters being toted by one hunter, who blithely explained: "It's open season for geese...
...Masterpiece was commissioned by Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, an up-&-coming outfit spark plugged by an energetic socialite, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden. The Academy paid Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with...
There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
...America's four million unemployed young people "the sense of pride in fruitful work." Consequently the majority of the contributors to "American Youth" see the necessity for some form of voluntary work camp programe--possibly an enlarged C.C.C. with "a reputation as a man factory, not as a mere warden of sub marginal youth...