Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May 11. under the leadership of one Belmiro Valverde, Brazil's Fascist Integralistas put on their green shirts under fake naval uniforms and spilled a lot of red blood (mostly their own) trying to take over President Getulio Vargas' Government. They failed, and their leaders were jailed. Several months later, Field Commander Valverde, with the prison guards' connivance, walked out of jail, disappeared...
When he was found after a long hunt it was in no mountain hideout, no rebel garret, no desert shack-but in the toils of a wealthy and voluptuous Hollywood has-been, Lia Tora by name. Last week Senhor Valverde was back in jail, with a probable 17-year hard-labor sentence (instead of the previous eight and one-half) before him. Also in jail, charged with furnishing him asylum, was pretty Lia Tora. And Brazil's men of justice were scratching their heads over what hard labor to set her soft, shapely arms a-doing for a possible...
...misappropriating church funds, last December 30-year-old Mario Politi was removed as administrator of the Vatican Library, sentenced to four years and four months in the trim little Vatican jail, where he is the only prisoner. Mario Politi expected a pardon from Pope Pius XI last week, on the 10th anniversary of the Lateran Treaty. Day before, Pope Pius died...
When investigators closed in, one of Swindler Bob's front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...
...Waterloo, N. Y., as he has each winter for more than 30 years, Umbrella Mender Harry May appeared before a magistrate, reported no funds, no business in sight, pleaded guilty to vagrancy, was sentenced to six months in jail...