Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to empower the Governor to use the National Guard in any manner he chooses and to prohibit State courts from interfering. If a judge dares to issue an injunction against the use of troops, he may be fined, thrown into jail...
Same day in Vienna the new Austrian Government of Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg made a belated gesture of appeasement to Austrian Socialists by letting out of jail their beloved leader, Dr. Karl Seitz, for years Mayor of Vienna. His health has been failing fast and seemingly the Government feared popular indignation should he die imprisoned. Looking worn and broken, 65-year-old Socialist Seitz was spirited secretly to the Auersperg sanatorium. There two detectives were stationed at his bedside and two police men set to guard the door of his private ward. "I am a poor schoolteacher on a pension...
...left her New York ways and words forever behind her. When North Dakota's farmers heard her stump speeches they decided she was the right kind of wife for the kind of Governor they wanted. After Governor Langer's Federal conviction and before his sentence to 18 months in jail the farmers gave the Langers a vote of confidence, renominated him on the Republican ticket by a whooping majority (TIME, July...
Threatened by the courts with jail if he did not remove the troops, Boss Long went to Baton Rouge, saw his friend Governor Allen, emerged beaming: "The Governor called in his bodyguard and defied me. He told me to go to Hell." Score for the first week of "war" in New Orleans: killed, 0; injured...
Overshadowed by the World War every-where except in Latin America were the wild events in 1915 when Haiti's black President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam had 200 political prisoners bayoneted in jail, took refuge in the French Legation and was dragged out and murdered by a mob. Two hours later the U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince and began forcibly soothing everybody...