Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-rebellion clean-up work, Greece's Premier Tsaldaris was caught in the dilemma that Greece is still largely Venizelist and that Venizelist-haters demand the sternest action against the late rebels. Dozens had been sentenced to long prison terms; nine generals had been cashiered for "unsatisfactory conduct" (doing nothing one way or another); scores of officials had been fired. But until last week Tsaldaris had executed no Venizelist officers...
...Ossining at New York's Sing Sing Prison, of 1,371 answers to a questionnaire, only eight convicts said they were in jail because they had been framed by the police, 55 ''declined to go into the matter.'' Warden Lewis E. Lawes said this proved that convicts are becoming more honest...
...German released from a Nazi prison camp tells his friends what a fine time he had there-plenty to eat, games all day long and a wonderful library. "But how did you get your nose broken and your ear torn off?" neighbors...
...that oleomargarine was better for insane patients than butter, Neylan barked: "You are more important to the State than your patients. If 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...
...been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result not of the Legion of Decency but of Victor Hugo's feelings about man's inhumanity to man and it is still, as it always has been, the grimiest great story ever told...