Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recalled that when the British tried to take it in 1741, Lawrence Washington, brother of the first President, was on the expedition. President Herrera's interest in the place was chiefly occasioned by the fact that during one of Colombia's revolutions he had spent some unpleasant hours in jail there...
After deliberating an hour and a half, the jury found Sportsman Don guilty. Don was sentenced to four months' imprisonment in a Manx jail...
...LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES?Mariano Tomas?Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about...
...naval equality for her with the U. S. and Great Britain. Though addressed to His Majesty, the sea dogs' demands were really aimed at the Premier, a sea dog himself. Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito. He promptly invoked a convenient fiscal scandal (the Vice Minister of Finance had been in jail on charges of bribery since mid-May) and the entire Cabinet resigned, leaving everything in the lap of 85-year-old Prince Saionji...
...pickets, has not suffered unduly from Depression. But once before, in 1927, the bank was forced to close temporarily when the cashier's accounts were short $192,000?more than 75% of the total deposits at the time. The stock-holders made up the deficit, sent the cashier to jail, reopened the bank in 37 days...