Word: incommunicado
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...negotiation. At that moment it was just after 7 p. m. in Washington, D. C. In the U. S. Treasury Department Secretary Henry Morgenthau and a group of weary but pleased advisers also stood around a newly silenced telephone. At 7:30, after he had remained for hours strictly incommunicado, Secretary Morgenthau called for the press...
...work for William Randolph Hearst. The Red Dictatorship and the Black had each clapped into jail a native Hearstman: in Russia, faithful Translator and Legman Zachary Levovich Mikhailov; in Rome, longtime Bureau Chief Guglielmo Emanuel. The Russian was convicted of espionage, sentenced to be shot. The Italian was kept incommunicado in a cell for 52 days while his journalist friends thought he, too, had been jugged...
...them, the operations might as well have been held on the dark side of the moon. Greatest hardship fell on the U. S. Press, which grudgingly observed that the maneuvers were "a triumph for censorship." For lack of specific information, correspondents in Honolulu (those aboard the Fleet were virtually incommunicado) sent off tantalizing, imaginative tales about an expected "mass attack of 400 planes on the island of Oahu," revealing that the "entire civilian population of Hawaii" was being hypothetically "enlisted for defense" against a vague "attacking fleet." The Navy's secrecy reached its climax and the frenzy...
...case a peaceful strike leader was seized, beaten up, almost stripped in the streets, taken to jail, held incommunicado, and finally put in an insane asylum in another county." Mrs. Pinchot revealed that it was through her endeavors that he was finally found and released...
...windy night of March 1, 1932, was returning to the U. S. Surrounded by all the melodrama of a penny-dreadful, Nurse Gow, it was whispered, was to be met in New York Harbor by a police launch, spirited away to a hotel. There she was to be kept incommunicado until time for her to testify at what promised to be one of the 20th Century's most spectacular trials. For the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann was to be tried for his life at Flemington, N. J. next week...