Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eire. He has one grief: his unneutral son, John Francis. Early in the war John turned up in Germany, broadcast Nazi propaganda, was dubbed the Irish Haw-Haw. Last December John came back to Eire by Nazi parachute, was seized by the De Valera Government, clapped in a Dublin prison. A fortnight ago John escaped, hopped a train from the capital, grubbed sympathy and sandwiches from fellow passengers, got off at Limerick, beat his way through forest & field to his father's home...
...Hotel Barclay. (Her attacker, onetime Soldier Socialite Sidney B. Dunn Jr., who gave as his reason, "She won't marry me and I'll fix her or kill her so she won't marry anybody else," is now serving a three-to-seven-year prison term.) Miss Clement asked $25,000 damages on the grounds that Dunn's treatment had caused "unpleasant publicity" and affected her "eligibility as a marriageable young lady in her social class...
...hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
Later, a Fritchey exposé sent to prison two Cleveland unionists who had sold merchants protection against window-breaking with one hand, collected bribes from painting and glazing contractors with the other...
...most dangerous corn I've ever listened to" emanates from Mrs. Henry Topping (TIME, April 10), who speaks over Radio Hsinking. Apparently an elderly U.S. widow, she tells of visits to Americans in Japanese prison camps, of their belief that there is no sense fighting the "delightful" Japanese. Grim: "She sounds like somebody making fun of your mother, and you resent...