Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looted from the House of Hesse's Kronberg Castle (TIME, June 17, 1946). In Frankfurt last week an eight-member Army court pronounced sentence on Colonel Jack W. Durant for his part in the crime. The sentence: 15 years at hard labor, dismissal from the service. Already serving prison terms for the same offense are Durant's ex-WAC captain wife, Kathleen (five years); and Major David F. Watson (three years...
Died. Lewis Edward Lawes, 63, famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life...
...these poverty-stricken Italians, who lived on an unvarying diet of black bread, garlic, olives, peppers, tomatoes. In 1935, while 1,200 Gaglianoese lived in Gagliano, 2,000 were living in New York. America was simultaneously the Promised Land and a steel-and-concrete hell; it was the prison house of cruel labor from which came marvelous scissors, razors, blue-bladed axes and dollar bills-the rich wasteland into which Gagliano's sons and husbands often disappeared without a trace, or died of exhaustion, comfortless and forgotten...
JERUSALEM, May 4--Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its centuries-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Holy Land in many weeks...
...including four Jewish prisoners, an Arab prisoner and three Jewish raiders, were killed in the wholesale prison delivery which the underground fighter accomplished by planting four bombs in Turkish baths adjoining the prison wall after screening the attack with gunfire and grenade blasts...