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Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...
Next evening she ascended the Pincian Hill, leaped off the 40-foot embankment of the sometime Borghese Gardens, landed in a net spread by Fascist police "to discourage the frequent occurrence of suicides at this place," was haled before another Fascist magistrate, clapped into jail "until morning...
...that is in the Record, I said on the public rostrum in the state of South Carolina in the presence of thousands while he was living, and while his agents from the Department of Justice were stenographically reporting my remarks to the department and trying to put me in jail for disloyalty...
When she allegedly divorced him in 1923: "My friends tell me that Sergei has been in jail for anti-Jewish utterances, but even in jail he contrived to remain permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...
...disorder of any kind was reported in despatches. Dictator Pangalos, however, took the precaution of clapping 400 "suspicious persons" into jail...