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...Claude Holbrook, 9,824-to-9,145 (the previous Conservative majority had been 7,844). Stocky, sharp-tongued Independent Brown, onetime Labor M.P., pledged his support to Prime Minister Churchill, but added: "The people have given me a message to Churchill that he should free himself from the Party prison and should put his foot down on privileged inefficiency in high places...
...month ago Tom Hall was a Sophomore at Harvard. Today he faces a two-year prison term. Hall was a scholarship student, a Group II man, although no one could call him a grind, and he spent more than twenty hours a week running the Student Food Service. He was a quiet fellow, interested in music and social anthropology, and in his political views inclining towards what his friends considered a somewhat naive utopianism. As a natural consequence he was a pacifist, and his beliefs made it impossible for him even to register for the draft. His refusal has earned...
When France fell, Anthony's father was in the U.S. teaching ballet and calisthenics. Anthony and his mother were taken to prison camp, first at Dinan, then to LeMans, then in a cold cattle train to Besançon. There was a lot of tuberculosis in Besançon. The Red Cross succeeded in having Anthony and his mother transferred to Paris. In Paris they stepped out of a shuffling line of internees and lost themselves in a crowd...
...indicted and convicted under the sharp-toothed Espionage Act of 1917, Social Justice will not only be put out of business, but Father Coughlin may also face a $10,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison. For the Government intends to make this case the beginning of a drive against some 95 "vermin" publications - just as the Wilson Government's suppression of the left-wing American Socialist and later of Victor Berger's Milwaukee Leader set the pace for suppression of some 400 publications in World...
From his work on a Medieval art thesis at Harvard, to the job of the French voice of WRUL, is the saga of William Tyler, program director of that station's broadcasts to the French people, "through the walls of the Nazi prison...