Word: prisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Ina Woods, wife of the Oklahoma secretary of the Communist Party, was sentenced to ten years in prison for criminal syndicalism...
...Jock's behalf a prison doctor testified that his right side was paralyzed, that he had two bones missing from his right wrist. The doctor doubted that he would have been able to do any climbing...
...were pictures taken aboard the Zamzam in the dawn of April 17 after the Nazi raider fired ten shells into her, pictures of the passengers abandoning ship, a picture of the raider (a commonplace looking merchantman refitted as an armed cruiser), pictures of the sinking Zamzam, pictures aboard the prison ship, pictures taken 33 days later as the prisoners caught sight of the Spanish and French coasts...
...Premier Paul Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...
Last January TIME'S Berlin correspondent, accompanied by German officials, visited Wodehouse in prison, took him pipe tobacco, a pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told...