Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whisked back to a Belmont jail by local police to await formal arraignment today, the Cambridge youth faces several charges of house breakage in this vicinity...
...suffering from a slight attack of claustrophobia. Certainly the surroundings were enough to make most people who cared for the great open spaces, mountains, prairies, or the sea, go a bit whacky. Once, when a little tiny boy, he had been taken by his parents to visit the county jail of his home town in Connecticut. It was a dark redbrick building, ivy-clad, and punctuated with tiny windows covered with lattice grille-work in strong steel. There was something bout that window at the end of the corridor of the library that reminded him of that old eighteenth century...
...patriots suffered torture, prison, and even death at the hands of the British during the years of the World War and after, all for the sake of freedom. Prisons fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could lay off for supper. On he must read through the tale of other peoples' struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener...
...German financing and instigation of plots against his Government by Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return for a reputed pledge by Hitler to squelch Austrian Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged not to flaunt his evidence of German guilt before the world and to amnesty the Austrian Nazis now in jail, may even take an Austrian Nazi into his Cabinet. None of this did the Austrian people know officially for sure, but they had their Adam's apples again under control...
...Affaires Henderson that there was nothing the U. S. Embassy could do to make her more comfortable or assist her. "Thank you," she concluded, "I need no help." In an effort to explain why U. S. Citizen Rubens refused help against the Secret Police who have got her in jail, Walter Duranty cabled: "I know the system. It is not hypnotism but the establishment of a moral ascendancy. If that is not clear ask a psychoanalyst...