Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition under the 18th Amendment and the law enacted by Congress for its enforcement has . . . collapsed. You cannot reform a nation by sending respectable citizens, as fast as the courts can act, to jail or prison for doing what they and their ancestors for generations have regarded as a matter of private concern. . . . The Democratic Party of Connecticut stands for the repeal. . . . Action is imperative if the people of the United States are to be kept from degenerating into a nation of gin-drinkers...
Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
...didn't know the War was over," said Rudolf Kutz. "Nobody told us till 1929. We asked to be sent back, but nobody paid any attention, we had to walk. There are lots of fellows in that Siberian prison who don't know yet that peace has been signed...
...that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard placed over him, was a Lieutenant Alfonso Llosa just released from the same prison by the revolution after serving one year of an indefinite sentence imposed by Leguia...
...shown to have used funds on deposit with him, to have so falsified his books that expert accountants despaired of ever unravelling them. The next year he went to jail and wept when, because of the smallness of his stature, he was measured for a special suit of prison gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving his ten-month sentence, Merchant Siegel married a third wife (the Western Union girl of Geneseo, N. Y. where his trial...