Word: prisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...struggle against Naziism, which carried him for a time to a German prison camp near noxious marshes, Carl von Ossietsky was aided by rumors that he was about to receive the Nobel Prize, which secured his transfer to a hospital. There the German guards wore him down until he gave his word that even if he ever got out of the hospital he would never again engage in any sort of pacifism. There was no suggestion of foul play last week in the death of long-ailing, wornout, beaten Nobelman Ossietsky...
...international tennis, world's No. 1 amateur is Donald Budge, No. 2 is Baron Gottfried von Cramm. While Donald Budge is tuning up his game for the coming season, Gottfried von Cramm is languishing in a Nazi prison. Last week a group of U. S. athletes, headed by Tennist Budge, demanded von Cramm's release. Criticizing the failure of the Nazi Government to amplify their charges of "moral delinquency" on which the baron was arrested last March, the U. S. athletes protested that the Nazi accusations were a "mere subterfuge . . . that the secrecy of methods employed suggests...
...your dog out for a stroll, do your office work, ghost write for you, prepare your speeches and argue with your mother-in-law. . . . There is nothing wrong with me physically, mentally or morally. Will you take a chance on me?" The advertiser: an inmate in the Connecticut State Prison...
...QUENTIN PRISON, CAL-Forty convicts in three San Quentin Prison work shops went on a sitdown strike late today. It was reported the prisoners struck after a leisure privilege had been denied them. Barnett House, secretary to Warden Court Smith, said the men went on strike over a new regulation effective two days...
...that kept him from being the Populist candidate for President. With his health permanently weakened by fever contracted as a Union soldier, he wandered through the West, became a lawyer in Missouri and settled in Chicago in 1875. He had married a childhood sweetheart, written a liberal study of prison reform, and served as a judge, when he won the governorship...