Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrived at by a Government accountant, the result showed that when Corporation Securities stock was selling for 12½¢, it was really worth $18.74. But that sort of evidence, the prosecution well knew, was not the kind on which twelve good men & true send 17 tycoons to jail. Human interest was needed. Hence Mrs. Mary R. Jones, a septuagenarian of Ridott, Ill. was put on the stand. She and her husband had mortgaged their farm to buy Corporation Securities in 1930. "We thought," said she, "the new stock was good stock. . . . Altogether they got $15,000 of our money...
Governor David Holtz, back at Tallahassee from the American Legion convention in Miami (see above), felt that an explanation was due with regard to his tardiness in calling out the militia. "It was not a case of calling out the militia to protect the jail or a prisoner in custody of an officer," said he. "The Negro was held in the hands of a mob out in the woods. . . . It would have been futile to have called out the militia...
...Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, which had begged for troops as soon as Neal was taken from Brewton, found it hard to believe that soldiers were trained only to find their way around in city streets or jail corridors. Indignantly A. S. W. P. L. wired Attorney General Cummings to beg him to start some sort of Federal prosecution...
...bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...
...several trunks too far. They obtained Dictator Kemal's permission to violate Consul Raouf's diplomatic immunity. When he was found to have brought in 27 fur coats, four cases of the best caviar and other salable Soviet goods, Consul Raouf was fined $2,100, sent to jail last week for one year as a smuggler...