Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Lichfield prison [TIME, Dec. 31] is more proof that the Army is badly in need of ... an Inspector General's Department interested in uncovering facts. It has been our experience that when the I.G. plans a visit, he warns the victim ahead of time to have all the dirt under the carpet. . . . [SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD] New Delhi, India
...cruiser Houston had joined battle with the Japs. Then there was silence. Everyone knew the Houston must have gone down; everyone was sure that she had gone down gallantly. But not until last week, when the Navy gathered reports from survivors who had been held incommunicado in Japanese prison camps until the end of the war, was the story told...
Coffee-colored Bustamante gathered his tough dock workers, bawled out orders (dictated to his common-law wife-secretary): "Handle the strikers with an iron hand." In reply, Norman Washington Manley, leftist leader of the defiant T.U.C., called strikes among prison guards, firemen and railroad workers. Armed mobs of rival unionists prowled the streets. Three men were killed. Bustamante was hit on the head by a brick...
...only serene person in Jamaica was Percival Bennett, a convicted murderer awaiting execution in St. Catherine prison. His sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, after the hangman had answered Norman Manley's strike call...
When French Academician Charles Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment for collaboration, one newspaper commented: "What a long time for an Immortal!'" Last week the moribund Academy, with 14 of 40 seats vacated by prison terms and natural deaths, muffed its biggest chance in 300 years for a new lease on life...