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Word: prisoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island, Park Policeman Thomas O'Connor saw Mrs. Ray Brodsky sitting on a piece of paper. When he warned her this counted as littering the beach, she called him a "Hitler." Brooklyn Magistrate D. Joseph de Andrea dismissed the charge but warned Mrs. Brodsky against calling anyone "Hitler." Prison wardens in New York, who feed inmates 51 ounces of meat a week, observed that German citizens, rationed 25 ounces weekly, are worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Indicted seven times, billed for $5,548,384 in allegedly unpaid income taxes, penalties and interest, liable upon conviction to more than 100 years in prison, 61-year-old Publisher Annenberg affably quipped in Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...trip (see p. 13) to say that the Federal Government could lock Lepke up for only two years while he could jail him for 500. Thereupon, U. S. District Attorney John Cahill arraigned and indicted sweating Louis Buchalter on ten counts of narcotic smuggling that might tuck him in prison for 164 years. Dewey men cooled their heels in the U. S. Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: This is Lepke | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...soul of nations." Of Stalin's purge he wrote: "For all its horrors, a glittering light plays over the scenes and actors of the French Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vision, Vindication | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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