Word: wardens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust Valley, L. I., heavy contributor to the diocese of New York, is to pay the publication costs are unfounded. What Mr. Morgan will pay for is a limited edition, on heavy paper, large type, handset, to be distributed to Bishops and deputies to the General Convention...
...Danny Daniels had lined up his four comrades, executed them one by one, then committed suicide. Most of the last hostage guards escaped unhurt. Total casualties: 5 dead convicts, 7 dead guards, 3 badly wounded guards, 7 other wounded including Warden Crawford whose head was grazed by a slug. Eight inquiries were started into the origin of the revolt. In 1924 the National Association for Penal Information pronounced the Canon City Penitentiary "the worst in the country" for brutality and repression...
...learned the criminal code. Six years later, when he happened to witness a murder within the prison walls, he refused to "squeal'' and was hurled to the dungeons for the third degree. Harassed, broken, he slew his inquisitor and himself. He did not know that the warden had signed an order for his pardon...
...grim, accumulative ferocity of these events is marred by the introduction of a romance between the prisoner and the warden's daughter. But it would take much more than this to emasculate Mr. Flavin's play. Largely through the gruff eloquence of the high-principled warden, magnificently acted by Arthur Byron, Mr. Flavin damns the tragic system that man has developed to police the race, makes the so-called science of penology seem as hideously false as some black, antiquated alchemy. Russell Hardie conveys every horrific tremor, mental and physical, of the unfortunate youth...
...Greensburg, Pa., new convicts at Westmoreland County jail were presented by the warden with a "greetings" folder such as hotels hand their guests. Excerpts : "My friend, for a little while you and I are compelled to live under the same roof, and, in a way, to be in each other's company. You come without invitation from me. Probably you had no intention that we should meet in this way. Probably you have made a mistake, perhaps done wrong. I have done both. Let us both, the little while we are together, try to do as we would...