Word: freed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
...decree by Governor Dever freed Bert C. MacLeech 3G yesterday from a fugitive from justice charge on which he has been in jail since last May. The charge had specified that he was wanted in Tacoma, Washington for perjury alledgedly committed when he sought a confirmatory divorce there...
...Davis crowed to a crowd on Harlem's Lenox Avenue near 111th Street. "I am out on bail because you brought me out of jail," he boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene on the fire; so did Party-Line Chanter Paul Robeson...
...Reds slyly used the Episcopate's concession to discredit the church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg you to consider the significance and implied pledge of this magnanimous...
...more winter sports squads are working out, but only informally at present. A dozen wrestlers are at it in the Blockhouse, but official practice won't start in earnest until after the Yale game, when Coach Butch Jordan is freed of his football duties. Also, 25 fencers are working out. Official practice here doesn't start until the end of November, for the first match isn't until February...