Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedeviled the U.P. line as it has never been bedeviled since. Always sending the road a taunting advance notice, he successfully robbed three U.P. trains in 1916, had a price of $11,500 on his head and 1,000 men hunting him before he was captured and sent to prison for life. Paroled in 1932, he went straight, now runs a tourist camp near Laramie...
...Nations. Pretending to live up to its Yalta promise to broaden the Polish Government, Russia had lured the 16 underground leaders out of hiding. Then, violating their promise of safe conduct, the Russians had kidnaped the 16, tried them for "diversionary acts" against the Red Army, sentenced them to prison. The U.S. and Britain set up such a squawk that the Russians reduced some of the sentences...
...same thing. There was practical, slight Ernst Brennscheidt, a civilian government employee who might have been working in Berlin today if he had not been sent to Sachsenhausen to test army shoes. His methods were simple. For 14 hours a day, beating them when they dropped, he had marched prison inmates carrying 50-lb. sandbags around & around a half-mile track until the shoes wore out. Then he knew which shoes were faulty...
...Government. After six hours of scurrying and checking, the Government issued a guarded communique saying merely that the Polish Peasant Party's leader had disappeared, and was believed to have left the country. In Warsaw and Washington, some thought that Mikolajczyk had been clapped into Mokotow Prison...
...Majesty's Government and Loyal Opposition joined forces to wish her luck and congratulate her on her "unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...