Word: incommunicado
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...Buenos Aires, peso-a-dozen rumors had it that the Argentine Government was about to wash its official hands of the Germans. There was a spectacular roundup of Nazi suspects, 30 of whom languished incommunicado in jail to face charges of siphoning off 95% of German Winter Relief contributions, piping the funds into propaganda channels...
Sporting Peer. With Hess incommunicado "somewhere in Great Britain," reading detective stories, eating better than many a Briton, talking to Government officials and Foreign Office-man Ivone Kirkpatrick, the press turned much attention on the Duke of Hamilton...
...arrested as a spy (with nine other notable Britons in Tokyo), Jimmy was at breakfast in their seaside house, an hour's ride from the city. Two Japanese major generals and an interpreter came to get them. They took him to police headquarters, held him virtually incommunicado for three days. He was allowed to send his wife five guarded letters. She sent him pajamas, shirts and socks, soap, fruit, cigarets. None was ever delivered...
...later, at 1:38 a.m., Franklin Roosevelt had been nominated by the Democratic Party for a third term-it was a first time in U. S. history. The vote: Roosevelt 946½, Farley 72½, Garner 61, Tydings 9½. (In the Senate Office Building John Nance Garner stayed incommunicado for a week...
Last week, to the vexation of Cordell Hull, the U. S. legman in France, hottest news spot in the world last week, was sending no news whatever: he was practically incommunicado...