Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consulate in Boston, and later (1927) as an aide to Michael Borodin, who, during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, was Russia's Grey Eminence advising the Kuomintang. Ho has a War Minister named Vo Nguyen-giap, who hates the French, because, he says, his wife perished in a French jail...
Said a well-to-do Mason (out on parole from a twelve-year jail sentence): "Why don't you declare an economic blockage? It would be better to suffer a few months that way than to suffer Franco a few years more...
Flats & Splits. Since they rode in a borrowed Ford together from Chicago to Los Angeles in 1939, the two Jacks had felt that they would have a showdown some day. Kramer, then 18, did the driving, was arrested twice and spent one night in a Nebraska jail. The car burned out a bearing, lost a rod and had plenty of flat tires. There were additional refreshment stops for Bromwich, 20, who became acquainted with banana splits and ate four or five a day. That was the year that Bromwich and Quist upset the U.S. team and took the Cup home...
...Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
...Turks, who made slaves of Coxere and his mates-"in chains, two and two together. . . . Several nations of us ... and all lousy." After 20 years of such experiences, along with savage sea battles and shipwrecks, Ned Coxere turned Quaker, quit the sea-and served a spell in a Dover jail as a religious heretic...