Word: untill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the last defendant had been sentenced, lawyers got to their feet to make an impassioned plea for bail pending appeal. Judge Medina rejected their plea, ordered the convicted men jailed in Manhattan's federal detention headquarters until the U.S. Attorney General selected the prison where they would serve...
The Communists had hardly settled in their cells when they acquired neighbors who also look to Moscow. Five officials of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet Russia's commercial arm in the U.S., were installed temporarily in the federal jail until they raised $15,000 bail apiece. Amtorg, which calls...
When Ed showed up at the U.S. Embassy, the staff there shook their heads and bet him he wouldn't get an exit visa until Christmas, if then. But Ed Bowling knows his way around, wherever he is. He got his visa O.K. in eight days and flew back...
World War II brought the Hales fresh cause for labor on behalf of France. They went to France in 1940, worked with French and other Allied relief officials until June, then returned to the U.S. and embarked on lecture tours to raise funds for war refugees. In April 1946 the...
During the first days of World War II, when King George's mother was sent from London to the comparative safety of the ancient Gloucestershire estate of Badminton, one of the first things to catch her eye was an untidy tangle of hawthorn. She promptly resolved to clean it...