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Word: hungers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicola Sacco, convicted over a year ago with Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of a paymaster and his guard in Boston, has been on hunger strike for sixteen days and is said to be showing signs of weakness. The Sacco-Vanzetti case attracted international attention because the two Italian defendants are well-known radicals and received aid, comfort, and propaganda support from all over the world. The Labor Defense Committee, which is the chief agency fighting for the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, charges that they were " framed " by the police because they were radicals and that they were convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Sacco on Hunger Strike | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Sacco is on hunger strike now as a protest against being kept in jail so long without sentence after his conviction of a crime of which he con- tends he is innocent. Counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti have made five motions for new trials, based on new evidence, discrediting of former testimony, and exceptions taken during the first trial. All of these motions are scheduled to be heard within a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Sacco on Hunger Strike | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...Miss Annie MacSwiney, sister of the late Terence MacSwiney, was released from Kilmainham Prison by the Free State authorities on the fifteenth day of her hunger strike. ¶ P. J. Rutledge, " Minister for Home Affairs " for De Valera, was captured by Free State troops, together with fifty of his followers. ¶ A mine was exploded outside Dublin Cathedral during a service. No damage was done either to property or to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Pot-pourri | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Mary MacSwiney, widow of the Mayor of Cork: "Since her arrest by Free State soldiers on Feb. 13, Annie MacSwiney has been on a hunger strike and is getting very weak. So I cabled my brother-in-law in New York: 'Notify friends in United States to protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...milleniumite", that his philosophy was the philosophy of the doughnut; "the bigger the doughnut, the bigger the hole." He entered vigorously into the activities of the college, helped equip a stage; and directed the production of the plays got up by the pupils until the pangs of hunger forced him to leave the institution and go to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE DOUGHNUT | 2/8/1923 | See Source »

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