Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Namesake. In Indianapolis, Horace Greeley Stamps eluded Indiana state prison guards, was last seen heading west...
...Saar industries through World Wars I & II, became the first industrialist in history to be convicted of waging aggressive war. In Baden-Baden, an international court found him guilty on three counts as boss of Hitler's steel industry from 1942 on, sentenced him to seven years in prison. (Acquitted by another court on the same charge but awaiting a verdict on two other war crime counts were Alfred Krupp, No. 1 Nazi gunmaker, and eleven Krupp directors...
Tito might save himself by recanting and promising to be a good boy henceforth. Otherwise Yugoslav Communists had stern Cominform instructions to "change the Communist leaders in Yugoslavia." For Communists of Tito's position, such changes usually meant exile in haste, prison, or a firing squad...
...more important than this contest of prices and production, the President can order the steel industry to allocate unlimited amounts of its output to defense plants. Any company that balks is subject to Government seizure. Any individual who fails to comply faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $50,000 fine...
...Mason. For his gifts to churches and charities, he has been commended by Pope Pius XII. He also remembers ex-convicts, gives a chance to many a deserving man; he has added several hundred ex-convicts to B. & B.'s payroll of 5,200. He also remembers other prison hands: one of his top wartime employees (chief of maintenance for B. & B.'s half-dozen plants) was an ex-warden who bossed him around at Leavenworth...