Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...OGDEN CHISOLM (Formerly U. S. Commissioner on the International Prison Commission) Ridgefield, Conn...
Chicago. Bernard Roa, Mexican, 16 bullet scars on back, wanted for murder. Roa broke out of Joliet prison, killed a deputy warden. Warning: "Dangerous...
...heels of a White House messenger who, just eight years ago, handed a certificate to a fresh-faced young California woman at the Department of Justice in Washington. The certificate showed that President Harding had appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt to be Assistant U. S. Attorney-General in charge of prison conditions, tax cases, Prohibition prosecution. Prohibition was barely a year and a half old. With three assistants Mrs. Willebrandt's division was the Department's smallest. That year saw 10,000 Prohibition arrests. In the field were 608 U. S. Dry agents, operating on an appropriation...
...might have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...
...Illinois the maximum prison penalty is one year for administering medicine without a license, one year for representing oneself falsely as a graduate physician...