Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago, and afterwards helped to send Eugene V. Debs, strike leader, to prison for six months. A few years ago he was appointed Chairman of the Chicago Race Commission following the race riots in Chicago-a work which he performed with outstanding ability...
...father, Abdul Hamid, was one of the astutest and most brilliant of the 36 rulers of the Turkish House of Osman. Had he been less brilliant, the Young Turks might not have thrown him into prison...
...Abdul Kadir, was also brilliant, and his radiance attracted more ladies than even a self-respecting Turk allowed in his harem. After his father was banished to a luxurious prison in what is now Greece, Abdul Kadir migrated to Budapest where women, wine and Tsigane music swelled his collection of unpaid bills. He married the Hungarian equivalent of a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, but eventually abandoned her and the small, red heir to which she had just given birth. A few days later the Prince walked into a Budapest court in answer to a summons. The police were amazed. Further investigations...
...girl can get along in the world even after she has served a term in prison...
...spread out our banners, 'On Earth, Peace,' while the whole nation reads of our conflicts in the Church. We must be done with heresy hunting. It never brought peace anywhere. Burning at the stake, being cast into prison did not cure heresy in the older days and anathemas will not cure heresy today. Why should our denomination be made the laughing stock of the world? Let us surprise those who are looking for trouble by the way in which we will exemplify our motto...