Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decrees passed, uniformed Prussian police pounced last week on five relatives of pouchy-eyed old Philipp Scheidemann, the Socialist who proclaimed the German Republic in 1918, served as its first Chancellor and recently fled to Czechoslovakia. On no charge whatever the five relatives were locked up in a Nazi prison camp. Refusing to reveal their names, police said their sex was "predominantly male." They will be held, it was explained, because Herr Scheidemann recently wrote an article for the New York Times in which he asked: "Will the world tolerate in the centre of Europe the domination of political adventurers...
...took the jury, old friends since Dec. 12, 1932, overnight to reach a verdict. All defendants were convicted on all counts. It took Judge Woolsey one hour to pass sentence. Defendant Goebel got five years in prison, was fined $41,000. Irene Flautt got four years, same fine. Her sister was not fined, was ordered imprisoned a year and one day. All the rest were fined $41,000 each, committed to prison for from two to four years...
...attracted him far less than penology, the penitentiary, sociology. Returning to Philadelphia to practice his new profession he threw himself into works of public welfare, became a trustee of Eastern Penitentiary. He even arranged to serve a voluntary term in a cell to get a real taste of prison life, but when newshawks discovered the scheme he abandoned it. For three years he worked as assistant district attorney of Philadelphia county, invariably drawing the toughest cases which his chief thought were hopeless...
...where they became heroes), George V broke off British-Soviet trade relations with an order in council. Last week Comrade Litvinov agreed to free the two engineers if His Majesty were "advised" (i. e. ordered by the British Cabinet) to revoke the order in council. In Moscow the engineer-prisoners knew nothing of this dickering. Suddenly their cell door clanged open. "Pack your kits!" barked the Soviet warden. Nervously, not knowing whether they might be going to Siberia or worse, the two Englishmen packed. "Now come this way. March!" Engineers Thornton and MacDonald marched down a series of corridors...
...jail for a crime that she committed long before. Cinema stories by Anita Loos, of which this is one and Hold Your Man another, have a way of starting bravely and curdling into fatigued sentimentality. Lawyer Mannering marries a girl of his own class while Mary is in prison. She gets out in time to save his life again, this time by shooting her old friend Leo. A jury finds her guilty of murder and Lawyer Mannering has to intercede to save her life. A familiar melodrama done in an expensive and sometimes ingenious manner, Midnight Mary is distinguished...