Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bail was given at $10,000 each and Albizu Campos went back to court. Since there is no such crime as sedition under Puerto Rican law, many peaceable advocates of independence were enraged at this imperialistic intrusion of U. S. law on their island. Liberals denounced it as a brutal attack on a man who is not a "vulgar criminal...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, Columnist Westbrook Pegler summed up his impressions: ". . . The show served two very useful purposes. It prevented, for the time being at least, a brutal raid on the German Jews. ... It also vindicated the contention of those who opposed American participation that the Nazis could not be trusted to refrain from political and military propaganda...
...President of the United States, have taken such an Oath for years and years without complaining, and the result has been good, clean, constitutional government. Obviously anyone who opposes the measure, since it attacks only communists, must be communistic, purveyors of the doctrines of mass murder and brutal oppression...
...Addames House News Shoppe" directors ran into difficulties yesterday when petty penny-pinchers became so active that the sale of morning papers had to be stopped until the thief should be apprehended; the culprit is threatened with discipline if caught. The management regrets the brutal frankness of the action, but claim they are riled by the subtility of "the one who gets up so early in the morning...
...white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good. At the end of his contract, because he was ashamed to go home as poor as he had left, he signed again...