Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...
...jail for life, with confiscation of property and a fine of 3,000,000 leva ($36,000 at prewar rates), went Bulgaria's last war Premier, Konstantin Muravieff, Agrarian and liberal, who landed Bulgaria in a three-day war with Russia while trying to remain neutral. Forty-nine Deputies received jail terms...
...cracker with soup," queried Morley across the roaring Atlantic, "took some kale and landed in stir, what was going on?" Banker Auburn knew that a cracker was a Georgian, knew that kale was cash, and that stir was jail, but guessed that soup was also money. Corrected Professor Brogan happily: "High explosive for opening banks...
During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
...started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore a top hat. In 1939 he was caught red-handed with a whopping $430,000 bribe from insurance companies, went to jail for income-tax evasion. His empire crashed with...