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...tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write his last words. He admonished his wife: "Please marry again. Do not remember me any more." He instructed his nephew: "Be filial to your grandmother so as to redeem my crimes...
...father, who is a milkman, mentioned it along his route. Last week-Holy Week-thousands of people who wanted to believe and thousands who were merely curious descended on Hawley Avenue and the two-story frame house with its artificial-brick sides. Some of the visitors knelt, prayed, and saw tears. Others, including newspaper reporters, said they saw moisture on the cheeks of the statue...
...woman in the audience fainted. Without a second thought, New York's Mayor James J. (for John) Walker darted from the radio microphone into which he was delivering his inaugural address, and knelt at her side. In the brief radio silence that day in 1926, thousands of New Yorkers stared at their sets and wondered: What was Jimmy...
Outside the conference hall the pickets massed in angry clots and put on a show that caught the attention of many a delegate, unseemly though it became at times. Crippled veterans were paraded in wheelchairs; elderly women knelt in the street to recite the Lord's Prayer. Pickets yelled: "Why don't you go back to Russia, you stinking Commies...
Nine Hungarian consular and diplomatic officials in Washington, New York and Cleveland resigned in protest against the Mindszenty trial. Catholic pickets, carrying signs denouncing Communist Hungary, knelt in New York's City Hall plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss...