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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most spectacular I. R. A. activity took place in Londonderry Jail in Northern Ireland. There, 45 imprisoned Irishmen closed their section of the prison and proceeded to set their bedding afire and smash the furniture. A crowd soon gathered outside, while the men inside sang Irish Republican songs, shouted Republican slogans and displayed Republican flags and placards out of the windows. One placard read: "England is the champion of freedom. Is this freedom...
Last week in Manhattan a trial jury found Catherine McNelis guilty. Maximum penalty: 35 years in prison (five years on each of seven specific charges), fines totaling...
...raffish crew of old pals marched up to the witness chair, testified, marched down again while Lepke sat in silence with no sign of expression on his lumpish face. Prison-pale were some of the witnesses. Ten of the 23 for the Government were felons, including: paunchy Yasha Katzenberg, described by the League of Nations as an "international menace," organizer of a $10,000,000 dope ring into which, he said Lepke muscled; Benny Schisoff, Coney Island frozen-custard man, implicated in the racket but free on a suspended sentence; John McAdams, Customs sergeant who accepted bribes to let trunkloads...
...dodge the police. Almost all the big revolutionists of necessity lived abroad; Stalin and Molotov were the only two who were able to brag in later years that they stuck it out for the most part inside. At World War I's start Stalin was in a prison camp just below the Arctic Circle. He got out when a general amnesty was proclaimed at the Tsar's abdication...
Robert Ley is one of the more radical oldtimers of the Nazi Party. He organized the Party into its prison-model machinery of blocks, cells, wardens. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was made head of the Labor Front, proceeded forcibly to liquidate the free trade unions, numbering 4,000,000 members. In his ability to incite-and entertain, he combined the talents of Billy Sunday and Billy Rose. He staged the vast Nürnberg Party rallies each year, and built the "Strength Through Joy" organization, which mass-produced recreation, playgrounds, loyalty-all convertible...