Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later, at the Toulon Naval Prison, twelve Communist prisoners, armed mysteriously with picks and other handy tools, broke loose and liberated nearly 100 other prisoners. Marching around the prison they bawled: "Down with the Army!" "Long live Marty...
...Prison wardens were helpless. Outside the gates 200 workers sang the "Internationale." Soon a call to the naval authorities brought a detachment of naval gendarmes on the run. Soon the mutineers were rounded up, placed in trucks, driven to greater security in the prison annex at nearby Malbousquet; police dispersed the chanting workers...
Leon Trotzky, né Bronstein, was born 50 years ago, son of bourgeois Jewish parents. In Odessa, he received an excellent high school and university education, aged 17, he became a revolutionary, working for the downfall of the Tsarist regime. Like all Russian revolutionaries, he spent long terms in prison and longer terms in exile in a dozen different countries, including the U. S., where he lived for a time in the Bronx, New York City...
...Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison as the commander of the firing squad dropped...
...into donning red pajamas during the second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty is signed. Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder...