Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sure Cure. In Paterson, N.J., Arthur Pacific went out for a short beer, got shanghaied to Naples, spent four years in Nazi prison camps, finally came home, took the pledge...
...hand, we have Sergeant Smith, an ordinary soldier with an eighth-grade education. The Army court-martial found him guilty of giving several unjust punishments which he had been ordered to give and of giving one beating in which he took the initiative. . . . His punishment was three years in prison...
...outrages. In 1945, the Archbishop wrote in a pastoral letter: "The enemies of the Catholic Church ... the followers of the materialistic communism . . . have in our Croatia exterminated with fire and sword priests and the more eminent of the faithful. . . . The number of dead priests is 243; 169 are in prison. We admit that some priests, blinded by national or party passion, sinned . . . in a way for which they must render account to lay courts. . . . We do not intend to defend the guilty...
...profit." What President Hartford propounded was the basic idea on which U.S. mass production and mass retailing is based. But if the higher courts do not overrule last week's decision, those ideas may cost each defendant as much as a $10,000 fine and two years in prison. And eventually U.S. consumers may find themselves paying more for their food...
...under arrest, Ross will go to the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for drug addicts, in Lexington, Ky. The hospital was established a decade ago to end the old policy of throwing addicts in jail like criminals. Of the 792 narcotic patients now at Lexington, 650 are under prison sentence for narcotics-law violations, 42 are on probation, 100 are volunteers (like Ross...