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...might have become its first President after the Republic was established five months later, if he had not kept clamoring for war against the Bolsheviki and vengeance against the Reds still in prison. Finland was tired of war, sick of vengeance. On a platform of amnesty for the Reds, Professor K. J. Stahlberg was elected President by 143 Parliamentary votes to 50 for General Mannerheim. The hard-bitten soldier (he was 52 then) retired to Louhisaari, to be heard from often again...
Ahead of proud Mr. Browder if this plea failed was his second prison term (his first: three years for conscientious objections to World War I). After pondering the evidence for 45 minutes, the jury found him guilty, and the judge promptly sentenced him to two years in prison on each of two counts, a $2,000 fine. Pending appeal, Comrade Browder remained free on bail, left the courtroom to attend a Communist commemoration of the 16th anniversary of Lenin's death...
...prison, Walter McGee told of how Mary behaved when the kidnappers held her. "She told us she was our friend but didn't like our racket. I asked her if she ever saw me at a dance, if she would dance with...
...secretly built auxiliary warship, the Altmark, a 12,000-tonner disguised as a tanker but hiding three 6-inch guns behind shutters and capable of 25 knots. Besides fueling the Spee (the last time, five days before the battle of Punta del Este), the Altmark was fitted with prison cells in her holds. Here the Spec's captives were-perhaps still are-verminously herded, scantily fed, given only one quart of water each per day for drinking and washing. Officers are humiliated by being forced to do latrine duty. During brief hours of exercise on deck, German guards cover...
...typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling a similar frontier town. He believes in law and order, but not in coercion: and "no-gun Destry," as the hombres come to call him, talks the crooks into prison and the town into somnolence. His adventures, except for a few moments of sentimental seriousness, constitute a picture which must certainly come close to exhausting the possibilities of satirical slapstick comedy...