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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his bags all packed and his steamer passage to the U. S. engaged, Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium last week pushed through his Parliament's lower house a bill granting amnesty to those Flemish separatists still in jail or suffering loss of civic rights as a result of negotiating with the enemy during the German occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Educational Is the Word | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...Munich after services some priests led their congregations out to defy the noisy Hitler Youth. Fist fights ensued, ten more priests were bundled into jail. In Cologne 60,000 Catholics thronged the Cathedral Square, wildly cheered Cologne's anti-Nazi Archbishop, Joseph Cardinal Schulte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 'Sunday of Youth | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...wheel of vast Brazil for seven years has sat dressy little President Getulio Vargas, who elected himself the first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Back Seat | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Died. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant of Carmarthen, 75, tallest (6 ft. 7 in.) member of the House of Lords; at his estate in Wales. Onetime head of 43 shipping companies operating 560 ships of 2,800,000 gross tons, he went to jail in 1931 for stating falsely the condition of his Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., was released in 1932 for good conduct, but with his health broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 14, 1937 | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot, leaving Perry with no proof that he is a Government agent. Getting Perry out of jail entails the assistance not only of Lil but also of President Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey, who rescue him by means of an old-fashioned telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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