Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the Leader's idea of wiping out the stain of that "horrible insult, to German Honor," the awarding of the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize to an inmate of a Nazi prison camp.* Not only the Peace but all other Nobel Prizes are forever barred to citizens of the Fatherland. The new decree went on to set up three annual prizes of $40,000 each in the Arts and Sciences to go only to Germans. Reason given by the Ministry of Propaganda officially: "When we Germans do a thing, we do it thoroughly...
France started him off a popular hero, elected him a Deputy, but he became suspect after he protested the King's execution. U. S. Ambassador Gouverneur Morris, paying off old grudges, was chiefly responsible for Paine's ten months in prison, his close escape from the guillotine, but it was Washington whom Paine blamed, accusing him of sacrificing their friendship for a treaty with the hated English. It pleased Paine when Napoleon praised The Rights of Man, said to him, "A statue of gold ought to be erected to you in every city in the universe." But when...
First everybody fought the guards, 25 swimming out into the river and 24 swimming back when shots were fired over their heads. Then the Negroes fought the whites. National Guardsmen withdrew outside the prison walls, announcing that twelve prisoners were dead and that all had "absolutely gone mad." Governor Chandler had previously putted through the gates in an outboard motorboat. "Get us out of here, Happy!" the inmates yelled. "We're gonna drown if yon don't!" "Happy" yelled back: "It's a hell of a mess, boys, but I'm going...
...down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name was big enough to head the investigation. Finally, however, the Governor was convinced, and athletic, 33-year-old Lawyer Dewey, whose favorite indoor sport is squash racquets, found himself...
...students the longest scholastic year -eleven months-of any in the U. S. To be administered by new Dean Allen Evans Jr., 46, Wartime chaplain and for the past nine years the successful rector of Trinity parish, Hewlett, L. I., the new plan provides for hospital, social service and prison work for the Divinity School's so-odd students, under the supervision of experienced physicians, hospital and prison chaplains, wardens, welfare workers. For the first time seminarians may witness, and assist at so far as the canons of the Church permit, such rites as the baptism of a harlot...