Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...west wind swished the flames from the west block across the entire prison. The bellowings of trapped men, grilled alive, ceased when the west block roof collapsed. Guards and prisoners worked shoulder to shoulder dragging out the dead and dying. The first fatality estimate leaped from 20 to 100, then to 200, then above 300 as body after body was lugged out of the still fiery debris...
...outer office of the prison matters were taken in hand by Amanda Thomas, daughter of Warden Thomas, while he carried on within the walls. Miss Thomas posted guards, distributed arms, summoned doctors, nurses, troops...
...said that he had committed arson in order to awaken the victims of his robbery, so they would be sure to send him to jail. He explained that he had been unable to make the Redwood Creek baseball team, that an ex-convict had told him the San Quentin prison team was one of the best in the state...
Born in Little Russia in 1879, the son of a Jewish farmer, Trotsky early became class-conscious. Arrested for revolutionary activities at 19, he spent two years in prison, then was exiled to Siberia. There he married Alexandra Lvovna, revolutionary coworker, because the work that we were doing bound us closely together." Two years later Trotsky escaped. On the fake passport friends provided he wrote the name Trotsky: of his several aliases that one somehow stuck. In London he met Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), worked with him on the Iskra, revolutionary magazine. Lenin and Trotsky had many a difference...
...undesirable alien; one after the other the countries of Europe ejected him. Finally he was deported from Spain to the U. S. In January 1917 he landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada for a month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived...