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...reference to Frenchmen who aided the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, were imprisoned in North Africa by Vichy, are yet to be freed...
Gene still had one job to do, and it was one he relished. While criminal lawyers jammed his office, he turned prisoners out of jail at the rate of 35 a day. The night before his retirement he proudly announced his achievement: in two years as Governor he had freed 2,941 convicts...
...January 1918, when a German-sponsored separatist movement proclaimed the autonomy of the Flemish provinces, the Belgian High Court ordered the immediate arrest of the political leaders concerned. The Germans freed their protégés, sent the magistrates to jail. In protest, the entire judiciary struck...
...Governor Poletti had paroled 15 New York convicts, twelve of them on recommendation of New York's Parole Board. The other three, all convicted of labor-union terrorism, were freed without Parole Board recommendations. In New York City only the Daily Worker, Communist organ, carried the news. Other papers ignored it for ten days. The Worker carried another story, welcoming the labor terrorists back to the fold. Then the New York World-Telegram dug up the story, belatedly revealed that Poletti had not consulted the Parole Board. Things began to pop. The austere, thorough New York Times reported...
...felt it was a large, bad impulse. Ursula, still game after hectic questioning, haggard, her impulsive uncombed head under a badly tied turban, was freed on $1,000 bail. The near future held for her, first, the star witness part in an approaching Federal narcotics case. Those of the ex-bandsman's jive-plucking friends that could be reached mostly made the same comment: "Mike always was a damn good guitar player...