Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come what might on Election Day, the President was relaxed. He told the Shriners: "People ask me how I could find the strength to campaign so hard and for so long. That's easy-I'm out of jail when I'm out campaigning...
...Moscow's Lux Hotel, Tuure's whispered tales of the beauties of mob violence made Hertta's head spin. In 1926 the pair were wed. Eight years later Hertta was sent to her native Finland to practice Tuure's preaching and was promptly clapped in jail...
...Tuure's political star had faded, but in Finland a scholarly young saboteur named Yrjö Leino soon caught Hertta's attention. In 1945, after years of close friendship, Hertta married Yrjö. "I wasn't able to before," she explained, "because of our being in jail." Leino went on to become Finland's Communist Minister of the Interior...
Sitting in Buenos Aires' Villa de Voto jail, Labor Leader Cipriano Reyes (rhymes with Asia's) might have been excused for wondering just what had hit him. Most publicized catch in the abortive assassination plot against President Perón (TIME, Oct. 4), he was scheduled for trial next month with eleven other defendants. Meanwhile he was held in solitary; only his wife and daughter could visit his cell...
When the dust settled, Perón was solider than ever; the troublesome Laboristas were shattered, their top men in jail...