Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke unless it works both for the professors as well as the students. Shame on N. C. U. for branding its sons as thieves while there are thousands more in schools over the country. It should brand the system that led to such a crisis as well as jail the Honor Student who sold himself for money...
...trial for larceny in Cleveland last week was Clayton Clawson, holdup man famed as "the toughest prisoner ever to be held in Cuyahoga County Jail." Tough Clayton Clawson was conducting his own defense before Judge Samuel Silbert. Suddenly Clayton Clawson whipped out a small bottle of colorless liquid, shouted: "I'm gonna blow everybody to kingdom come...
What began last fortnight as Spain's least bloody election in years was swelling last week into horrid crescendos of threatened social upheaval, secession and civil war. Overnight 30,000 political prisoners came bustling out of jail. They included the furious Catalonian secessionist, "President" Luis Companys, who had just begun to serve a 30-year stretch in a grim Andalusian prison for having proclaimed the industrial northeast of Spain the independent Republic of Catalonia (TIME, Oct. 15, 1934). Out of jail popped most of this suppressed Republic's Parliament and met in Barcelona, their capital. In Madrid more...
...This is my third term as mayor," went on the people's choice as he overlooked mentioning his prolonged visit in jail during his first term, "I isn't polished, but I'm honest. That's why I get the votes, people know where they stand with Gillis...
Case concerned Tennessee Publishing Co. (Nashville Tennesseean). Before he went to jail and the company went into receivership, Tennessee Publishing was owned by Nashville's Luke Lea. The present owner of the common stock, E. W. Carmack, submitted several 77-B reorganization plans to Nashville's Federal District Judge John J. Gore, who refused to approve them on the ground that they required coercion of a majority of the creditors. The case turned on the point that 77-B not only provides a means of clubbing a stubborn minority into line if two-thirds of the creditors...