Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Napoleonic Wars the British captured a French senior officer named Charles Sandré, sent him to Dartmoor Prison. While his comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
...stand out in Dickensian tufts at the sides of his bald head. But his tongue is his greatest member. Trial juries melt before him. At Prague three years ago he reduced 7,000 Czechoslovakians to tears. On the platform he grows warmly evangelical about anything from the psychology of prison reform to the beauties of rare glass. A good though less vociferous friend of his is Professor Raymond Moley, another "Ohio boy" interested in crime and justice. Assistant Secretary of State Moley was largely responsible for Harry Payer's appointment to a neighboring berth in the department...
...Genoa for a visit, Monsignor William Eugene Cashin of Manhattan, one-time Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, found himself "encumbered with a guide and interpreter. I may say that he wished himself on me. He spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew me. His face was familiar and in checking up I found he used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing...
...pictures sweep from Sarajevo to Sedan, from recruiting rallies to cemeteries, from ammunition factories to prison camps. Notable shots: Archduke Ferdinand's blood-flecked tunic; silk-hatted Etonians drilling with rifles; French troops deployed for the first battle of the Marne; Serbia's melancholy Peter watching his army break before Mackensen; a direct hit on Rheims Cathedral; the famed River Clyde under fire at Gallipoli; Russian infantry retreating on the run; the U. S. transport Antilles sinking; a No Man's Land capture; U. S. infantry blinded by gas; a dachshund following Kaiser Wilhelm into exile; French...
...charged with "holding back fresh meat and vegetables until they spoiled" and generally conspiring to give the Moscow Restaurant Trust an evil, stinking name. After five days five culprits, including Soup Saboteur Oshkin Mikkhail, were sentenced to "the highest form of social protection-death by shooting." Six accomplices got prison terms of from 18 months to eight years, one was acquitted. Russia faced a grave food shortage last winter at the time Oshkin was supposed to have been most active. The food supply in all large Russian cities is better now. Since Soviet executions take place in complete secrecy Moscow...