Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church, and in Berlin most churchmen agree today that but for Niemoller most of the opposition to Hitler within the Lutheran fold would probably have been beaten down. Seven months ago the Gestapo (Secret Police), who had searched Pastor Niemoller's home repeatedly, finally clapped him into Moabit Prison on the triply seditious charge of ''misuse of the pulpit to vilify the State and the Party and attack the authority of the Government." The longer he has languished in jail the more of a Church hero indomitable Martin Niemoller has become, and as his trial began last...
...years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from his bonds, informed his delighted congregation that so could they escape the fetters of sin if they appealed to God. Declaring that religion is admirably "fitted...
...Prison Camp, preferred to take the desperate chance of escape rather than hope for release. Weak from scurvy and dysentery, Konarski told correspondents...
Arguing that his newest enthusiasm has good chance for success in the U. S., Dr. Potter cited Czechoslovakia's new penal code which provides that a person who "kills on request" receives a five-to-ten-year prison sentence, and he who "kills in sympathy" is liable to three months to five years...
...broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...