Word: jailbirds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
Star witness called by the Nazi prosecutor was a cowed-looking German in convict garb. Testifying in disjointed fragments, this jailbird swore that he had recognized a picture of Nisselbeck shown him by Nazi police as being that of a man he had seen consorting in Czechoslovakia with anti-Nazi refugees from Germany...
...piece orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly...
...waged a bitter battle to present documentary evidence that atheism, free love and disarmament for the sake of Red revolution and dictatorship are the principles of Communism-Socialism and that notorious jailbird Communist agitators, Negro and white, speak constantly in U. of C. halls sponsored by U. of C. authorities. The seditious pronouncements recorded at one Communist Congress alone, held there, should convict the U. of C. authorities under the Illinois sedition...
Among characteristic U. S. luxuries are jail cell doors of iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week...