Word: abhor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly broke Debs's heart. Cried he: "I abhor war!" To him it was purely a Capitalist fight. At Canton. Ohio, in June 1918 he shrilled loudest against the military policies of the U. S.. was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Law, of obstructing the Draft and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. His sentence: ten years in jail which the Supreme Court sustained unanimously in March 1919. First he was comfortably imprisoned at Moundsville. W. Va.. then transferred to Atlanta where he nearly died in confinement. President Harding freed him in December...