Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polish policemen, identified in Soviet minds with Capitalism, were hunted from house to house, new Soviet police were described as "Workers' Guards." The Moscow radio announced that battalions of peasants were tracking down former Polish landlords who were hiding in the marshes and forests, clapping them into jail, added: "All their lands, livestock and personal belongings are being divided among the peasantry." Reported seized near Krzemieniec was one of Poland's greatest landlords, Prince Janusz Radziwill, president of the Polish Red Cross and head of one of the four most ancient and historic families in Poland. Captured near...
...them that the Generals and officers of the Polish Army had fled and containing appeals from the Polish populace for "liberation." In London, the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post reported that famed Karl Radek, who was the No. 1 Soviet publicist up to 1937 when he got ten years in jail for plotting with Nazis, has actually been "busy in Moscow since last March organizing Polish Bolsheviks for the very situation which has now developed." Reports from Paris said that Radek, who is a Pole by birth, has been placed in charge of Sovietizing the Russian slice of Poland...
...Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
Racketbuster Dewey interrupted his first political trip (see p. 13) to say that the Federal Government could lock Lepke up for only two years while he could jail him for 500. Thereupon, U. S. District Attorney John Cahill arraigned and indicted sweating Louis Buchalter on ten counts of narcotic smuggling that might tuck him in prison for 164 years. Dewey men cooled their heels in the U. S. Court...
Winchell telephoned his good friend John Hoover (for whom he withheld the news of Hauptmann's capture for 24 hours) and G-Man Hoover guaranteed Lepke asylum in a Federal jail. Then for two weeks Winchell was treated to a run-around by Lepke and his men. Finally, one day last week, he was called to the phone again. "If Lepke doesn't surrender by 4 p. m. tomorrow," barked Winchell, "Hoover says no consideration of any kind will ever be given...