Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned in the barn below Fredericksburg, Va. but Dr. Mudd and seven other persons accused of aiding the assassin were in jail. Hauled before Secretary of War Stanton's Military Commission, the eight were summarily divided-four for Death, three for life imprisonment, one for six years...
...concession to recalcitrant Democrats, the Appropriations Committee made several notable amendments in the bill: 1) Knocked out was a section which would have given the President power to extend the life of any Government agency to June 30, 1937. 2) Knocked out was the penalty of two years in jail, for violating any rules the President might make about his $4,000,000,000. 3) Knocked out was the President's power to acquire personal property by exercising the right of eminent domain...
...workmen together for counsel, hear him tell them he cannot pay more than 25? per hour, see him enter his kitchen after a hard day's work, hear him tell his wife that NRA has cracked down, that he must post $5,000 bail or go to jail. To jail he goes; after 18 days, out on bail he comes. Then to his aid go eminent volunteer counsel-David Aiken Reed and John William Davis-who personally re-enact their conferences with their client following his conviction in Federal Court (TIME, Dec. 17). And The March of Time camera...
...Love. First Tamara's seducer, Mayne Mallory, kills his wife. Then, after he has tried to blackmail Tamara's George, a lawyer, into taking his case through the courts, Mayne gets his own come-uppance when his victim's husband knocks him down, inadvertently killing him. Jail for manslaughter separates George and Tarn for a period, but California Justice appears more kind to Mrs. Norris' hero than to Tom Mooney...
...Like Adolf Hitler, Louis Napoleon staged his own opéra boufle "beer hall putsch." Louis' fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short-lived Second French republic (the equivalent of Hitler's term of office under Hindenburg), of taking over some...