Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the biggest deals was that of Leroy Healey, of Seattle's Barclay Co., Inc. Awkwardly he signed an order for $100,000 worth of mandarin oranges. The awkwardness was due to his lame right arm, which was torn from its socket by Japanese police in a wartime prison camp in Shanghai...
...Prison life is real life, too-stripped of all pretensions and pleasures. An uncivilizing process, prison life almost inevitably reduces man to the status of a beast living for mere survival. Prison demands the best in man, often brings out the worst...
...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...
Criminal proceedings were brought only against the associations, which cannot serve a prison term; officers of the associations, who conceivably could, were named in a civil suit only. Despite such dove-roaring, however, Washington expected the flow of indictments to continue. For Tom Clark's crusade was so patently political that almost every businessman could expect some accusation of one sort or another before next year's election...