Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim tradition of European espionage, "Master Spy" Mme Lydia Stahl, 45, had kept her mouth shut during 16 months in jail and the three weeks of the trial. Last week she sobbed but said nothing when she got five years, almost escaped press notice...
...Court's sentences: ten years in jail for Moscow's Singing Subway Engineer, five years for Bookkeeper Snetkov...
...playing bridge and drinking local absinthe at night. When she returned to Madrid last October, a revolution was going full blast, the streets were raked with machine-gun fire and the conservatives had locked up her old teacher as a Socialist conspirator, threatened to keep him in jail for 19 years (TIME, Dec. 3). The effect was about the same as if the Republicans should seize the Washington Government, throw Artist Bruce into a cell as a dangerous New Dealer...
...oleomargarine is so good, you eat it!" He saw that they did. With his toughest teamster tactics he routed so many corrupt officeholders to San Quentin Prison that Governor Johnson called a halt, jokingly told friends that "Neylan was ruining the State Government by putting all the officials in jail...
...first seen, Maxim (Boris Chirkov) is stumping off to work cheerfully enough with his two companions, Andrei and Dyoma. Andrei is killed in a factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready to help Revolutionist Polivanov (M. Tarkhanov) and his girl lieutenant Natasha solidify their chapter of the underground revolutionary society. When Polivanov is wounded by police, Maxim has become responsible enough to take his place...