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About 10 o'clock Robert Haines, Deputy Chief Warden, dismissed his men after the University's first realistic air raid test. Once again dazzled squirrels returned to their nests in the trees and the crinkily brown leaves settled quietly in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKOUT MADE MORE REALISTIC BY INCIDENTS | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

Robert Haines, Deputy Air Raid Warden, called last night's activities most successful. "From control centers the services showed that they were extremely well constructed," he said. "The wardens were alert, on the job, and turned in their reports promptly. The navy unit located in the Yard was present with its services ready for the sudden emergency. On the whole it shows the ARP personnel at Harvard is well organized to meet an air raid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haines Praises ARP | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

After the convicts finished, Big Jim Bryant and everyone else on the prison staff blandly denied the stories. Warden Clay, who used to be a farmer before he got his $160-a-month job, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...showed signs of blasting Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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