Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs, Ga. for ten days or more went Franklin Roosevelt, detoured to Chattanooga to inspect TVA's Chickamauga Dam. Twenty-one drunks were let out of jail...
...permit the operation of bawdy houses. Democratic Governor William Comstock pardoned him after he had served eight months and eleven days of a 3½-to-5-year sentence, saying he was "more sinned against than sinning." He barely missed re-election while under sentence, and again while in jail in 1934. He came back strong in 1936. At that time he said: "When I first became mayor, I was long on ideals and short on practical politics...
...economic proscriptions against Jews continued. After January i Jews will be barred from all wholesale and transit trades. Employment contracts with Jews may be canceled on six weeks' notice. In Breslau telephone service to Jews was cut off. Spiritual ministration practically ceased for Jews: the Rabbis were in jail. Money expropriations and deliberate confusion in issuing and honoring emigration permits turned hundreds of fugitive Jews back at the border...
While awaiting the Corporation's decision, the Committee continued its organizing activity under Robert E. Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...
This he proposed to get by forcing backward French employers to run their factories longer hours, which means forcing French workmen to work up to 50 hours per week in some cases, and M. Reynaud's decrees provided stern penalties for recalcitrant employers, employes, and for "agitators" fines, jail...