Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape to England in 1902, without Alexandra but with a passport forged in the name of Trotsky, which stuck; his meeting with Lenin in London...
...prison cell on the outskirts of Buenos Aires last week marched Enrique P. Oses, editor of the swaggering, German-financed, openly Nazi El Pampero, enjoying a temporary freedom on bail. For months he had trumpeted rabid denunciations of the U. S., of President Roosevelt, of the Havana Conference, of Great Britain with noisy immunity. But last month he offended the Argentine sense of good taste, was whisked off to jail...
Last winter the British press reported that war had greatly increased drunkenness in "a northern industrial town." Dr. Harvie K. Snell of Liverpool Prison promptly decided to see whether that was true. Last week the Lancet reported Dr. Snell's findings...
...everyone who gets a little drunk lands in gaol," said the editor, "but Liverpool prison serves a wide area in North-West England and North Wales . . . and so may be regarded as fairly representative of the country as a whole." According to available prison statistics, there was an appreciable fall in the amount of drunkenness during the first four months of the war. Dr. Snell's reasons: ". . . Resolute acceptance of the present situation in contrast to the wild enthusiasm manifest in 1914 ... a heightened sense of social responsibility . . . and the static character of the war itself during its early...
...heads the Ministry for Press & Propaganda and so determines what Spaniards learn. He controls the police and so determines who shall live free or in prison. He heads the Ministry of Government (Interior), which now includes the Ministry of Communications, and so controls the post office, telephone, telegraph and cable systems. He heads the Falange Española Tradicionalista and so bosses Spain's sole political party, its 2,000,000 members, 800,000 associated female Falangistas and 600,000 Falange youths...