Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terror still gripped Havana. In socialite Vedado suburb a young Negro attempted to steal a bicycle, ducked round a corner when he was seen. It was a stupid move for round that corner was the wall of Principe Fortress, on the wall was a prison guard with a rifle in his hand and nothing to do. The reaction of a Cuban guard to a running Negro is precisely that of a British sportsman to a rocketing pheasant. He killed him with a single shot...
...start of a three-weeks' fast Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison by British authorities. Said he: "Those who expect my fast to kill me will be pleasantly disappointed...
...county and hand it over to them?" angrily demanded Attorney Foley. "If I get an even break, I am going to put everybody involved in jail!" Seeking a case to peg a general assault on the whole corrupt kosher poultry racket, Attorney Foley clapped his fright- ened witnesses in prison, set their bail at $25,000 apiece. When two days later, an unknown benefactor turned up with their bond, the partners became thoroughly alarmed. "We don't want to go out," they anxiously told Mr. Foley. "None of our people bailed us out. We want to stay...
Thus with all solemnity last week Britain cocked the loaded gun Ramsay MacDonald had been given against the trial of six Metropolitan-Vickers engineers for sabotage and espionage. The engineers' sentences were light: acquittal for one, banishment for three, prison terms of two and three years for Engineers MacDonald and Thornton, respectively, whose amazing confessions were never properly explained during the trial (TIME, April 24). Therefore the gun was not fired at once, but it was carefully aimed...
...Constitution does not bar . ex-convicts from holding office. The Minnesota State Constitution does. Shoemaker's seat is now being contested on the ground that his prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed "robber of orphans and widows." Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a "foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S." was backing Cuban revolutionaries...