Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi elite were gathering again at Nürnberg. But the old Parteitag pomp and mass hysteria were gone. This time the leaders had to make their speeches in prison cells, where they awaited trial by the United Nations War Crimes Commission for being Nazis and starting the war. Most of them were hard at work on their defense. Chances were they would claim to be guilty only of German patriotism...
...people they had helped free by founding . . . St. John's and by choosing its present campus." The president of St. John's alumni summoned to his alma mater's aid the shades of Francis Scott Key and Major General Allan McBride, who died in a prison camp at Formosa. Columbia's Professor Mark Van Doren added his testimonial to St. John's: "The best known, the most often discussed, the most often debated and the most widely copied liberal arts college in America...
Death Revealed. The Rev. William T. Cummings, 42, famed Army chaplain ("there are no atheists in foxholes") whose calming voice was heard above the bomb bursts in a Bataan hospital, and later by starving men on a Jap prison ship; of starvation and exposure; on shipboard, early this year. One G.I. said: "I remember wondering how a dying man could have such a strong, clear voice...
...nabbed by Velazco's police included party leaders. ex-Cabinet ministers, newspaper editors, university presidents, heads of the powerful industrial and agricultural associations. High & low were herded into central police headquarters or famed Villa Devoto prison. PerÓn himself gave many of them the once-over. Later all but a handful were released...
...thin young major from New York asked if Al Smith was still a political power on the sidewalks of New York. A Texas sergeant asked what "G.I." meant. A lad from Brooklyn wanted to know all about "Dem Bums." U.S. soldiers freed from Jap prison camps had a lot to catch...