Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw under the conviction: five years in prison and $10,000 fine; the maximum: death...
...others: Nazi Propagandists Douglas Chandler and Robert Best; Army Deserter Martin James Monti, who became a Nazi Storm Trooper; U.S.-born Tomoya ("the Meatball") Kawakita, wartime interpreter in a Japanese prison camp; Mildred Elizabeth ("Axis Sally") Gillars. Indicted but never brought to trial: prizewinning Poet Ezra Pound, now in a Washington insane asylum...
Clapped into solitary for stealing luminal from the prison dispensary, Grandstaff could compose without disturbance. He wrote on the walls, worked out rhythmic passages by pounding his commode and the frame of his cot. When he was released from solitary, he put words & music on paper...
...Teapot Dome furore finally died; Harry Sinclair served out a total of nine months in jail (for contempt of court and of the Senate investigating committee), and Fall went to prison, later died in disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
...night last week Garry Davis, self-appointed Citizen of the World, rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...