Word: specialized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when 200 segregated prisoners, under special watch for taking part in the attempted break and prison-burning less than five months ago (TIME, Aug. 5), were supposed to be having lunch. They were not eating. Some of them had handcuffed six guards and marched them back to the punishment cells to set free their comrades. They had sent a message to Warden Jennings and he was there now, manacled and trembling, a white-haired man with a lined, anxious face, a hostage. The prisoners waited for their leader, Convict Henry Sullivan, to tell them how the guards and troopers...
...convicts had been killed, many others injured. After the break Governor Roosevelt said: "We have three commissions working on the problem now. I would name a fourth if it would do any good." He announced that seven captured rioters would be tried for their lives. He promised to make special penal recommendations to the legislature next month concerning: 1) A five-year building program to increase prison accommodations by 3,000; 2) Construction of a new 1,000-men model prison at Attica; 3) Increase in prisoners' daily ration allowance from 21¢ to 26¢ 4) Work for every prisoner, with...
...tingling Celtic sense of the dramatic has New York's Mayor James John Walker. One midnight last week, he made the unprecedented announcement that he would act as a special catastrophe investigator...
...Wilson). Commander George Dyott who went to India with the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition talks about his trip and shows you pictures of it. His record is a good travelog, wonderfully vivid compared to the lectures which, under the same title, have been delivered since time immemorial as a special treat in U. S. boarding schools on Saturday nights, but prosaic when measured against some of the animal scenes that have been artificially arranged in recent romances of wild countries. Some of Dyott's facts are interesting. Indians never kill ordinary elephants, regarding them as almost sacred because of their capacity...
Instrumental Clubs Program Brattle Hall 1. Veritas March Densmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. "Harvard Club Special". Mr. G. W. Briggs '31 and Mr. R. G. Edwards '31. 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. Mr. DeWitt Stetten '30 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange Why Was I Born? Kern Gold Coast Orchestra Intermission--Ten Minutes 7. Ein Karleksmatt I Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah...