Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black felt hat, Chesley W. Jurney, the Senate's portly Sergeant-at-Arms, strolled one day last week up to the Senate Press Gallery. Jauntily twirling his cane, he boomed to the assembled newshawks: "Here's a statement from Bill MacCracken, boys. I just put him in jail...
...fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days in jail, Lawyer Hogan appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which last month refused to void the sentence...
Home for lunch one day last week, Sergeant Jurney answered the telephone, heard Mr. MacCracken offer to meet him at the District of Columbia jail at 3:45 that afternoon. Sergeant Jurney was there on the dot, but not Mr. MacCracken. He drove up at 4 p. m., explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then...
What to Do? Just before the Rodgers trial the AAA dispatched red-headed Mary Connor Myers, a Boston lawyer who helped the Department of Justice jail Al Capone, to Arkansas to see what all the trouble was about. Last week she reported to Washington. It was announced that the written part of her report was confidential, and the oral part was for the ears of Chester Davis alone. The United Press said: "Mrs. Myers, it was understood, uncovered contract violations which caused cruel hardships to part of the farm population. She found share croppers straggling along the highways, homeless...
...starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with the scum of Spain as his audience and his inspiration, Author Frank leaves him, happily hard at work on his masterpiece...