Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Health, averred that the War Lord was in Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living quietly in a modest apartment in Moscow and would go south in a few days...
...wife. For her father was William Lloyd Garrison, the famed abolitionist, who at 22 was editing the first prohibition paper in the country (the National Philanthropist), who at 24 (in 1829) was joint editor of The Genius of Universal Emancipation, published weekly in Baltimore. He went to prison for failure to pay a fine of $50 for libel when he had referred to a ship carrying a cargo of slaves from Baltimore to New Orleans as engaged in "domestic piracy." Poet Whittier appealed to Henry Clay (slaveholder) to pay the fine for Garrison's release; but Clay was forestalled...
...turbulent situation in Egypt arising out of the murder of Sirdar Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1 et seq.) was sufficiently ameliorated to warrant the release of 23 men arrested after and in connection with the above outrage. Approximately 25 were still in prison pending inquiry and subsequent exoneration or trial...
...plead for a man because he is poor, and on the next ask mercy because he is rich and over-educated." He stated that were the death penalty abolished, there would be no possible deterrent to killing, since no criminal feared the pleasant conditions of a jail. In prison, Judge Talley said, ruffians are bedded with a comfort, fed with a largess, that they could never themselves have afforded. The long hard evenings are made bearable by cinema shows, or, should the prisoners weary of these, by free performances of well-known stage stars...
...road, a squadron of French Hussars were drawn up in a wide circle, into which the British were directed to march. Came the commands : "Present arms! Lay down arms! Put off swords and cartridge boxes!" Then the British marched back into Yorktown to rest before being sent to prison camps in the South...