Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have in me [bowing to Lord Reading] the same blood that runs in the veins of Lord Reading, who once sent me to prison. I am a Semite. . . . Oh you English! If you had listened to Burke you would not have lost America and you would not be talking of naval parity today. You would not have all these War debts to pay. You would not have to go to Geneva for preparatory disarmament negotiations which are going to succeed Heaven only knows when...
Above the execution chamber of Sing Sing Prison, in a small room comfortably furnished and brightly decorated, a grey old man lay sick abed last month. Because he had often before been "good copy," Manhattan newspapers reported him "dying." But prison officials said it was not so bad as that. He had failed considerably, they said. His rheumatism was much worse. They had tried to move him to the prison hospital. But his sunken grey-green eyes had blazed refusal...
Another feature of the campaign was that the government placed 64 opposition candidates in jail "permitting them to stand for election but not to electioneer." One of these was M. Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, thrice prime minister, locked up in the military prison at Brest-Litovsk without any charge being preferred against...
...Government since Oct. 3 upon the officials who authorized the expenditures; 3) postulated that, since the Brazilian Congress ceased to exist Oct. 3, whatever it has done since was never done at all-i. e. all laws passed since the fatal date are void; 4) failed to disgorge from prison one Horton Hoover (no relation). U. S. aviator arrested on a charge which remained indefinite last week. The fact that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson recognized the Revolutionary Government while the Consul General in Sao Paulo was still struggling vainly to secure Horton Hoover's release...
...years ago the defeat in the Crimea of General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel left Russia's White Army stranded in a Bolshevik prison camp near Constantinople. Provisions were scarce. The troops had nothing left but the frayed uniforms on their backs. Bandsmen had lost their instruments. To raise the morale, each regiment formed a chorus...