Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been active in leading U. S. organizations working for Leftist Spain. Instead of being permitted to "observe conditions" in Valencia, Socialist Baron found himself abruptly clapped into jail, managed to smuggle out news of his plight by means of a prearranged code. Last week international Socialist pressure secured Observer Baron's release and he arrived in Paris after traveling the length of Leftist Spain, keeping his eyes & ears open. Earlier in the year Socialist Baron had spent...
Partly because of his personal popularity and War record, Shipper Arnold Bernstein was left in control of his business much longer than most Jewish tycoons. Finally last January, Nazi extremists forced the Government's hand. Arnold Bernstein and four of his managers (three Jewish), were clapped into jail, charged with "economic sabotage" through infringing German foreign exchange regulations. While he sat in jail Bernstein's 21-month-old Palestine Shipping Co. went into receivership "because the Jews deserted me," says Prisoner Bernstein, and Japanese bought for $150,000 its auctioned steamer Tel Aviv. Last week in Hamburg...
Meanwhile Prisoner Bernstein has had a far happier lot in jail than most political prisoners. His clothes and laundry are sent in from his home, his food from restaurants. He is allowed a glass of beer daily and a full bottle of burgundy on Sundays, permitted to receive the London Times, and TIME, a privilege few free Germans enjoy. His wife, whose passport was at first seized, later restored, may visit him for 20 minutes each Wednesday, other prisoners' wives having the same privilege...
...done portraits of Pope Leo XIII, former Kaiser Wilhelm, Presidents Harding & Hoover, King Edward VII, Premier Mussolini; of heart disease; in London. During the War when he, a British citizen, sent money to a friend in Hungary, he was convicted of "trading with the enemy," clapped into jail...
...found a furious mob trying to get at Assassin Leon Czolgosz, who had been seized and put in a back room. Vallely ordered a patrol wagon sent to the building's back entrance. While the mob surged around it, Vallely sneaked Czolgosz out the front, took him to jail in the President's carriage...