Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the voice of Lady Haw Haw was heard again. In a British prison camp in Germany reserved for violent Nazis, visiting British M.P. Beverly Baxter heard a woman scream: ''You murdered my husband, but you won't murder me!" Turning, he recognized the still beautiful face of Margot Joyce. The accent was no longer so refined...
...turbulent three-day trial they shouted anti-British slogans from the dock, quoted Scripture (Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered . . .), chanted in unison "In blood and fire Judah fell; in blood and fire it will rise again," before they were shackled and led off to prison...
...minds were occupied with an immediate worry. The Hobbs anti-racketeering bill, already approved by the House and long dormant in committee, was suddenly brought before the Senate one day last week and swiftly passed without debate or record vote. The bill provides fines up to $10,000 and prison terms up to 20 years for labor union representatives or others who obstruct interstate commerce by robbery or extortion. (Labor regards it as restrictive of legitimate union activities.) An identical provision had been in the vetoed Case Bill...
Last week, a jury took only two hours and 36 minutes to find Lustig and his aides guilty of defrauding the U.S. of $2,872,766.62 in taxes. Maximum sentence on the 23 counts: 112 years in prison, fines of $230,000 apiece...
Elaine and her fellow black marketeers will be barred forever from French universities. Functionary Houel last week faced a possible five-year prison term. Cried Le Parisien Libéré: "A grave symptom of moral rottenness...