Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purchases and they split commissions of $32,814.92. Mr. Silberman testified to giving Kemp another $27,865. Mr. Kemp admitted receiving as much as $21,942 from the two men but said it was a gift. Found guilty last week, he was sentenced to three-to-seven years in jail, appealed...
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Minn., one-time Interim Senator Guy Victor Howard totted up the financial and political rewards of the two months he served in 1936-37. His accomplishments, he said, were to 1) land a couple of WPA projects, 2) help a man get out of jail, 3) get some Congressional Directories and Capitol calendars for friends back home. His rewards: he has enough stationery to last the rest of his natural life; he gets invited out a lot more than he used to be. "For instance," he says, "I now go to two or three funerals a week...
...Most interested was Mrs. Elma N. Lauer, wife of New York Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer. She was indicted along with Albert Chaperau for conspiring to smuggle $1,833 worth of Paris finery into the U. S. If convicted on all counts, she might have to go to jail for eight years, pay $25,000 in fines...
...already begun to lose its foliage. In fact, Mr. Chamberlain was clutching not much more than a bare stick as he watched the "appeased" Germans unleash their full brutality against the Jews and agitate revolution in Rumania (see p. 15), as he watched the Rumanians shoot and jail their own Nazis, as he watched two wars still going on while French and Italians were worried about another...
...Premier Duca were among the dead 14 last week. Tried several times, incarcerated fewer times, Leader Codreanu's defense was invariably superpatriotism. Until recently Rumanian law prescribed no death penalty. Well might a Fascist leader, at a time when Fascism was fast engulfing Eastern Europe, look upon a jail sentence as a laughing matter. Fifteen years ago another much less publicized leader, Adolf Hitler, had spent his time in a Munich jail profitably writing a bestseller...