Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has been there ever since, famous, admired for his fluent sesquipedalian style-the elegant, eloquent Henry Fountain Ashurst. Into wifely anonymity faded the little Irish woman, beloved by the few who knew her kindness...
...brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist-slitting...
...that time the Liberal Club sponsored a series of talks by leaders of the four parties in the 1920 presidential campaign. Norman Thomas was invited to speak for Eugene Debts, Socialist candidate, who was then in jail for draft evasion, and permission was granted by the University...
...Earl Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...