Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many are tortured by the Gestapo and some have been beaten to death. There are localities in Czecho-Slovakia where half the population is in jail...
...know the German people. . . . How beautiful, how industrious, how serene it is here in Germany. ..." Again the Nazis peeked and, touched by such sincere repentance plus representations from the U. S. State Department, the Ministry of Justice last week decided to release young Curts after only a month in jail...
...rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler...
...line broke and he pancaked into the Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York Journal and American...
Three years ago, after a long career of dodging immigration officials and rubber-checking rich and high-born speak-easy acquaintances, Mike's luck ran out. After a short spell in jail, he skipped Manhattan...