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Word: jaile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slashed back Senator Glass, "I think they might be. ... I am not facetious about it; I am serious about it. I do not want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Kings, Queens & Apples | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Contempt at Chelsea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Stanford's Dr. Terman had found that his typical divorced woman was inclined to be less mercenary than happily or unhappily married women. Mr. Anthony likewise found that his jailing wives were unmercenary, at least in the sense that they would rather discomfort their husbands than get money from them. When he pointed out to the women who called on him that no money would be forthcoming so long as the husband was in jail, the caller almost invariably replied: "That's all right; I'll get along without his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maniacal Wives | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Anthony is divorced, pays alimony-"gladly." Asked last week if he had spent time in alimony jail, he parried politely: "Let's not go into that, shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maniacal Wives | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...securities business. Like any good Irish policeman, he would be kind where kindness was called for, harsh where harshness was needed. As to his Wall Street record, Joe Kennedy would get a lusty laugh out of catching one of his old friends off the reservation, gaily clap him in jail if he possibly could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reform & Realism | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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