Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adolescent.) Deft but less vivid, The Happy Land tells the story of a coal-mining Yorkshire village on the dole. In particular it is the story of the motherless Clough family, the spunky fight of eldest daughter Thora against depression odds which send one brother to prison, frustrate the talents of another, turn her father into a fiercely baffled radical, make tormenting alterations in her love life...
...train the President spent hours over prison pardons; forced a tired smile for newsmen, for the first time failed to call by their first names the little group of correspondents that has traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the usual pictures, standing at the rail; soon tired, he rested in a chair, bundled against the damp, cold day. Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by. Ten minutes after the 21st salute-gun had boomed, the three warships slipped out into...
Some 32,410 persons have been brought into Italian courts since the outbreak of the war charged with contributing directly or indirectly to rising prices-in the main either by selling food above the State-fixed prices or by buying it in hoarding quantities. Eight of these defendants received prison terms, five were placed on probation, 7,578 erring shopkeepers were punished by temporary closing of their shops, 15,089 offenders were fined-and the rest were let off with warnings...
...flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...
...Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Gushing, etc. Some years ago three great Massachusetts surnames were combined in one Porcellian: Endicott Peabody Saltonstall...