Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jane Anderson, "the world's greatest woman orator in the fight against communism," who as a war correspondent in Spain for the New York American narrowly escaped death in front of a Loyalist firing squad only to be thrown in prison for six weeks, will speak in Emerson D at 7:30 o'clock tonight...
Although for several years married to a Spaniard, the Marquis de Cienguegos, she had retained her American citizenship and was eventually released after 43 days in a prison that had once been a convent, through the intervention of the United States State Department...
Never before had a U. S. diplomatic or consular official been allowed inside one of the prisons of the U. S. S. R. Smart, the Secret Political Police, instead of taking the Charge d'Affaires to their prisoner in Bolshevism's ominous new Lubianka Prison in the heart of Moscow, carefully took him instead to a onetime Tsarist prison in the suburbs, Butyrskaya. There they found an airtight setup. U. S. Citizen Rubens, who appeared decently dressed in a zipper-closed U. S. frock, was not permitted to talk freely or be alone even for a moment with...
Citizen Rubens, who seemed in good health with only normal prison pallor, said finally in reply to Charge d'Affaires Henderson that there was nothing the U. S. Embassy could do to make her more comfortable or assist her. "Thank you," she concluded, "I need no help." In an effort to explain why U. S. Citizen Rubens refused help against the Secret Police who have got her in jail, Walter Duranty cabled: "I know the system. It is not hypnotism but the establishment of a moral ascendancy. If that is not clear ask a psychoanalyst...
Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...