Word: prisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every day there were awful atrocities The lightest of the punishments inflicted was hanging head downwards for hours and 50 lashes on the soles of the feet." Not the account of a Nazi prison camp, but just one of the many experiences that make the life of Haratune Tashjian, a rug-dealer on the Square, read like a book...
Hanfstaengl is allowed to write 27 lines a week from his prison "overlooking a lake" somewhere in Canada. Apparently well taken care of, the prisoner complained of boredom and has asked his son to send him extra clothes because of the severe Canadian climate. Hanfstaengl was transferred from England sometime in July...
Died. Dr. Julian Besteiro, 70, Socialist Speaker of the Spanish Cortes 1931-33 and last Foreign Minister of the Spanish Republican Government, who stayed behind in Madrid to surrender the city to the rebels; in Carmona prison, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for "prolonging...
...Chicago, 24-year-old Lawrence Yehling stole $75 from a former employer, gave himself up to the police. If they sent him to jail, said he, he could write a prison novel better than Dostoevski's The House of the Dead. After two weeks in the bridewell, Novelist Yehling changed his literary plans: "I think I'll join the Army and try to write a better book than Tolstoi's War and Peace...
Japan's No. 1 Christian, Toyohiko Kagawa, was released from the prison to which he was hustled last month. Christian Kagawa said he would spend the rest of his life tending tuberculous Japanese on pine-studded, golden-beached Toyoshima, one of the "dream islands" of Japan's Inland Sea. Louder than his words was the obvious inference that, at the behest of Japan's New Order in East Asia, he had abandoned militant Christianity for politically innocuous social service...