Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some two months his weight had dropped from 145 to 130 pounds. Propped up on his pillows, eyes closed, long wisps of hair straggling across his high forehead, he lay in what one observer called a state of "cell shock," his mind apparently focussed on the prison sentence that lay before...
Vuco Perovich, though still preferring gallows to cell, prepared to return to prison. As Associate Justice Holmes read the decision upholding the 1909 ruling, despatches reported that "Chief Justice Taft smiled broadly...
...Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...
...Well, here I am ... I stick to my principles, as I believe I will feel that my suffering and anxiety here in prison are not in vain...
...where Fascists are in a minority, peasants are rebelling openly. At Inveruno, near Milan, an armed revolt was led by Don Galbiati, parish priest. Several Fascists were wounded but carabineers saved their lives. The priest's superiors forced him to surrender to the police, who sent him to prison at Milan, where he awaits trial on a charge of inciting rebellion and insulting the Duce. . . . Encouraged by general discontent, Communists are issuing from secret sources several propaganda sheets with a total circulation of 500,000. These broadsides are filled with violent anti-Fascist tirades and insults to the Duce...