Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...combat against those forces." Ended was the Utopian hope that the U. S. could remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian world: "Such an island represents to me and to the overwhelming majority of Americans today a helpless nightmare of a people without freedom, a people lodged in prison, handcuffed, hungry, and fed through the bars from day to day by the contemptuous, unpitying masters of other continents." Ended was the vacillating talk about the value of aiding the Allies; nothing remained now but to get on with...
...leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript:" 'If I had the wings of an Angel - Over these prison walls I would fly!" Three weeks ago many a Hall County cotton farmer to whom the merchant had extended liberal credit in years of drought, poor cotton prices, piled into his store in response to his ad. First...
That there are gonorrhea carriers, doctors have long known. Drs. Carpenter and Westphal found that sulfanilamide produced carriers when they examined over a thousand inmates of New York State's model Attica Prison. Of these, 392 had once had gonorrhea. All had been discharged by doctors as cured. When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci...
...Antonio, a barber shop, a milkman, four gasoline stations and the ball park noticed a slump in business since Hitler invaded France. Said Phoenix Refining Co. of its 50% slump, "war jitters." Southern Prison Co., having had to raise its bid on a new New York State prison because of war uncertainty, heard that New York State had rejected all bids as too high...
...strategy by a disinherited German nobleman-cowboy; a Turkish scholar taught him Asiatic lore. Thus primed, in 1935 Hathaway went to Bombay, thence to Tibet and Turkestan, where he fought with a bloodthirsty Mohammedan chieftain against the Bolsheviks. Captured, he spent 116 days in solitary confinement in a Soviet prison, made his lucky exit via the Gobi desert to Shanghai. Whatever the facts of his curious adventures, Author "Ramal" is a vivid writer, nearly rivals the fantastic imaginings of Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics...