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...Coolidge announced the personnel of a committee to investigate the cases of 31 so-called political prisoners still in prison for War time offences (see page...
...Rosa Luxembourg, Jewish Pole, and lifelong revolutionary agitator, became an editor of Die Rote Fahne, and through that paper she was responsible with one Karl Liebknecht for the street fighting in Berlin in January, 1919. Both were imprisoned in The Hotel Eder and in transferring them to another prison the hostile crowd shot Liebknecht, brutally attacked the diminutive Rosa and finally shot her while she was insensible from the injuries she had sustained. Her body was thrown Into a canal and only recovered months later...
...Buzfuz" was what Mr. Untermyer called Mr. Steuer, referring to the ingenious lawyer whom Dickens devised to send Mr. Pickwick to prison for breach of promise?because a. lady had fainted in his arms...
...necessary that academic men, those in the colleges and universities, take some action in regards to the 34 men who are now languishing in prison for merely speaking their mind during and following the war," said Professor Harry F. Ward g. '98 of the Union Theological Seminary in New York City in an interview recently after his address at the old South Church on "The Future of Private Property...
...Labor has done all it can," he continued," to free these men who are suffering a prison term because of using their right of freedom of speech, a principle which every college or academic man maintains to be sound. These men have been placed in prison during and following the war under the Espionage Act of Congress and are doomed to serve five to twenty-year terms unless some power greater than that now exerted takes hold...