Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Congress was Meyer London of Manhattan.) Berger will represent the fifth Wisconsin District (Milwaukee)?which he has done before by successful appeals to the Socialist, pro-German and wet sympathizers in his district. During the War he was ejected from Congress and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage...
...features of the nominations is the arrest of de Valera, now in Mountjoy prison, Dublin. It seems that the Free State's action in arresting him, dubbed " stupid" in certain quarters, has made his election certain and spared him the annoyances of an election campaign...
Before dissolving on Aug. 4, the Dial Eireann took the precaution of passing a Public Safety bill, empowering the Free State Government to hold in prison its 12,000 political prisoners...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...
...Vigoroux, after the first hearings, asked for a trial by jury, and was remanded to prison to await the criminal court...