Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he walked out, after modern ballistics experts had testified that bullets expand on being fired, that no bullet ever again fits the barrel of the gun that fired it. After twelve years unjustly in jail, Alexander Ripan had his freedom but few of his teeth. He had pulled them out one by one in his cell, so that the pain would "keep him from going crazy...
...judge," Felix Frankfurter implored newsmen who stormed his Cambridge home after the appointment, "I'm not confirmed yet." Ten years ago, getting Fighter Frankfurter, defender of Tom Mooney and of Sacco & Vanzetti, by the Senate would have meant a sizable fight. Last week Tom Mooney walked out of jail, and it seemed that Felix Frankfurter would step as easily into the Supreme Court. Felix Frankfurter had become so relatively inoffensive that last September the arch-conservative legal profession, Gallup-polled, gave him five times as many votes for the Court as any other candidate. As a Senate subcommittee...
Thus runs a significant passage in Mein Kampf, Germany's Gospel-According-to-Hitler, which, written in jail in 1924, has called every turn on European history since...
...years 1928-31 he also spent in jail, this time for inciting disobedience in the French Army. France and Russia are still technically allies. But by last week the French Rightists were unwilling to trust highly salable military secrets to such a friend of the U.S.S.R. and enemy of French military discipline as André Marty...
...customs and immigration officials. Accused of having sold this sort of stowaway passage to countless European emigrants (nine of whom were uncovered after the Normandie's December 3 sailing was prevented by a crew strike), two French Line sailors this week found themselves in a Havre jail...