Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later a $7,175-a-year State Department economist, had been convicted of fraud against the Government for concealing his Communist Party membership. Last week in Washington, Marzani, born in Italy, educated at Williams College and Oxford, was sentenced by a federal judge to one to three years in prison...
Last week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
While U.S. marshals bundled Curley off to serve 6 to 18 months in the federal prison at Danbury, Conn., Boston quietly saw to it that Democrat Curley would get the best of care. The state legislature voted to pay him his $20,000-a-year salary while he was in jail. Then the obliging legislature upped ruddy, 49-year-old City Clerk John B. Hynes, a political unknown, to the office of temporary mayor. Salary: $20,000. In or out of jail, sick or hale, Jim Curley still seemed to have official Boston firmly by the tail...
Spelling Proudhon backwards, Bourin created his own Utopia at Fresnes prison (near Paris), during the months before his trial. It was called the Republic of Fresnes; other inmates of the prison held leading cabinet posts. The list of portfolios, as it came to light in court last week, included the Ministries of Catastrophes, Redundant Absurdities, Pots of Wine, the Budget & Squaring the Circle, Dangerous Initiatives, Counterfeit Money, Expediency, Peeling of Oranges and Violation of Nuns...
Throughout the trial, Bourin remained completely at his ease. Why was he on a stretcher? Because a hunger strike in prison had sapped his strength. Why had he gone on a hunger strike in the first place? Because "a leader must set an example. As president, I am the official scapegoat of the republic." Later, he presented a piece of paper to the judge. "Your Honor, permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied...