Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free man again last week. Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams refused to extradite him to Alabama, where Patterson and eight other Negroes were arrested 17 years ago on a flimsy rape charge. After that, a federal judge dismissed a fugitive warrant against him for breaking out of an Alabama jail...
Syngman Rhee, President of the Republic of Korea, has been working for Korean freedom ever since 1894. His single-minded struggle has led the dapper, 75-year-old Rhee into conflict with Korean kings, Japanese tyrants and Soviet agents. Years of imprisonment (1897-1904) in an unheated jail left him with the habit of blowing on his fingers when he is excited. Thirty-three years of exile (1912 to 1945), during which he vainly tried to interest the great powers in Korean independence, have long since given him the nagging tone of a neglected conscience...
...Power. Among the political prisoners in the Gestapo jail, says Lilje, the Christian faith flourished as never before. "The longer our imprisonment lasted, the more evident it became that there was another power amongst us. It was much stronger than that of the common political-resistance: that power was the Christian Faith. It was significant to see how one after another realized this fact; once it was admitted, our sense of its power increased...
...corporation which closes its fiscal year this month with $16 million in sales and $2,000,000 in profits, pays no rent, no taxes, and has no labor problems. All 3,500 of its employees are in jail. The company: Federal Prison Industries, Inc., a Government corporation set up in 1934 to sell products made by prisoners in federal penitentiaries. In 15 years, it has recouped the Government's $4,175,000 investment, has paid $10 million more to the Treasury in dividends...
After Mrs. Fox had been in jail for 47 days of what might have become a 1,200-day term, she took advantage of an old Connecticut law herself. She took the Poor Debtor's Oath, under which a person swearing to less than $17 in assets may escape jail for unpaid judgments. This week Alice Fox returned to her family and her old neighborhood. What did she think of Neighbor Rollo now? "I will not mention her name...