Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil war. I was held in jail for three days because they thought I looked like a German-those Barcelona radicals have an intense hatred of all Germans and Italians. They won't let either German or Italian warships into Barcelona inner harbor, whereas any British or French vessel can go alongside the docks." Two days later...
...Richest Man in Spain," august and autocratic Count Romanones. He was three times Premier under the Monarch", and, after King Alfonso fled, escorted Queen Victoria Eugenie to the train and saw her safely out of Madrid. Last week proud Count Romanones was let out of a San Sebastian jail, reputedly after making "charitcble contributions" of 2,000,000 pesetas ($260,000). Arriving in France, he was obsequiously met by an undersecretary of the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. Snorted the old Monarchist: "I was not afraid because I knew I was protected by those I always had commanded...
...himself in the role of umpire and considered useless any attempt to prevent Spaniards from shooting out their political differences, the stage for Civil War was set. The Cabinet's radical Minister of Labor, only recently a jailbird, took to locking up Madrid employers and keeping them in jail until they yielded to the demands of their striking employes. The Left, feeling stronger, every day in its purpose to maneuver the Republic into a Soviet, then offered great provocation: the assassination of the leader of the Right, Don José Calvo Sotelo...
...morning last week Russians woke up to face screaming headlines in the Stalin-controlled Press that a plot to assassinate Stalin had just been discovered, that the chief plotters were Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated...
...fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite a play about life in jail!" In Manhattan the high-strung dramatist faced newshawks after three days in seclusion. "I assure you that I took all this very hard," said George Kaufman. "There is only one thing I resent about the case. Some newspaper writer referred to me as a middle-aged playwright. The reason...