Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Gomulka & Co. have issued a handy decree setting up courts-martial (no appeal, sentences executed in 24 hours, penalties from one year in prison to death) for all crimes against public security, public order or the economic interests of the state...
...matter of fact, the United Press reports that the noted industrialist and suspected fascist organizer was attacked by strikers at his steel plant recently, and was committed to a hospital. Thus it is obvious that, whether or not he is awaiting trial, he is definitely out of prison at the moment, and there is no proof that he was ever actually apprehended...
When Maurice Bradford, a schoolteacher, was 28, and four years out of college, he killed a woman. He was sentenced to life in prison-but never lost his interest in education. He became librarian of the state penitentiary at Concord, N.H.; his 200-odd fellow inmates came to him for advice on correspondence-school courses to take and books to read. The library he built up (and was allowed to sleep in, instead of a cell) became the envy of other prisons...
...from being Massachusetts' most agile and successful politician. He had once been jailed for violation of the Civil Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...
...evokes this sentimental, semantic medley of adoration and respect is a little (5 ft.) youngish (40) bespectacled, homely, eloquent son of a French naval officer. Before the war Sartre was a relatively unknown professor of philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most of his writing and preaching day. Simultaneously...