Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sent to State's Prison...
...chapter keeps decently to itself, avoiding traffic with neighbor fraternities and above all with the barbs*. . . Thus [a] fraternity man can go through [college] as one entitled not to meet more than 40 or 50 other undergraduates . . . Fraternity meals . . . are distinctive, and few Americans not confined in a state prison eat anything comparable to them as a steady diet. Consumption of ketchup along Fraternity Row is estimated at 1.27 gallons per week per brother...
...return evil for evil-and, in true Communist fashion, evil for good. Because she wanted to play along with his Liberal Party for a while, she left Tata-rescu, who had jailed her, in the Foreign Ministry for two years; but Maniu, who had helped her, she clapped into prison. Said she: "In his old age, Maniu has earned his rest." Maniu is now dying, still behind bars...
...free church in a Communist state? "So far we have been left alone. I don't know what the Communists may do to the church tomorrow. But if they try to restrict my freedom I know what I will do. I will say no. I will go to prison." Later, Hromadka had an additional thought. The West was deluding itself, he said, "when it imagined it possessed freedom and others...
Died. Maud Charlesworth Booth, 82, national commander of the Volunteers of America, known as "the little mother of the prison world" for her work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army's founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization...