Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clemens, Mich., a song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move...
Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance...
Chile not only carried out a Nazi roundup but considered opening trade parleys with Russian envoys seeking minerals...
...closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration camps, there to join 5,000 others corralled May 15 in Stulpnagel's opening Paris performance...
...Buenos Aires, peso-a-dozen rumors had it that the Argentine Government was about to wash its official hands of the Germans. There was a spectacular roundup of Nazi suspects, 30 of whom languished incommunicado in jail to face charges of siphoning off 95% of German Winter Relief contributions, piping the funds into propaganda channels...