Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...story Carlton apartment house. More than 300 were believed buried in its ruins. A few gained the air-raid cellar and called frantically for aid over a still live telephone wire. Then the oil tanks of the central-heating plant exploded, bathing the rubble in flames. Nearly 100 prisoners saw the walls and ceiling of their cells cave in on them as the Doflana prison was shaken to the ground. Thousands of German troops. Iron Guardists, Rumanian soldiers and civilians worked frantically to extricate victims...
...play was written by Ernst Toller, famous German poet and revolutionary who committee suicide in America last year. "Man and the Masses" was written in a Bavarian prison in 1921 during the Communist revelt...
Attorney, who helped send Capone to prison, had gone all out on a roaring campaign against the Kelly-Nash machine, which had chosen his opponent: long-faced, long-nosed, curly-haired Harry...
...sponsoring a Finnish convict's libelous book about his adventures in a Swedish prison, Sweden's Supreme Court sent Mme. Elsa Kleen Moller, whose husband is Minister of Social Affairs and a potent Social Democratic Partisan, to jail for two months, clapped on a 6,500-krona fine...
...Virginia as security for his unpaid bills.) But, though past 60, Eaton was not content with his income and ran deeply into debt. After attempting to bribe his creditor's agent and being proved quilty of perjury, the dapper little popinjay was dragged off to King's Bench Prison at Southwark. There his incessant demands for scholastic and clerical privileges fell on deaf ears; and, within sight of John Harvard's old home, this college's first President died a convict...