Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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N.R.A. control means price control. Competition means no control. Big Business has tried both, and has run both off the track. Now the small businessman--whom Big Business put in jail for pressing a pair of pants below the price they dictated--can safely walk the track, repairing it as he goes. V. H. Kramer...
...founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage. She was aboard the Lusitania when it was torpedoed. She has fought for the right of peeresses to sit in the House of Lords. She scorns feminine frills, looks like Amy Lowell, regards idle home-women...
...Pittsburgh, a prisoner bargained to paint the dome of the county jail, a regular two-month job, if the warden would keep him supplied with cigarets, help him get a parole. Dispensing with scaffolding, the prisoner rigged up a sliding chair, painted the dome in three days, consumed $2.30 worth of cigarets, got the parole...
...Hooversville, Pa., burglars broke into the town jail, unlocked the cell of James Berdill, robbed him of $14.75, turned him out. Prisoner Berdill complained to the constable...
...battlefront service, was 19 when the War ended. He came through unscathed, undistinguished, but two brothers were killed. After the War he broke his mother's heart by turning out to be the bad boy of Kamenz. He served one term for theft, escaped a second by breaking jail. Twice he entered the U. S. illegally, the second time successfully. With...