Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrel-chested Son-in-Law Miller and youthful Son-in-Law Felis, both professional wrestlers, took a night off during the trial to wrestle in nearby Hannibal, Mo. where Miller earned $20. But when the troupe realized that the 13 counts on which each was held, carried aggregate maximum jail sentences of 65 years and $75,000 in fines, they giggled less. Son-in-Law Miller offered to wrestle Assistant U. S. District Attorney Roy Foreman two falls out of three for a not guilty verdict. Snapped Prosecutor Foreman: "I hope to throw all of you-into jail...
...finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
...trial cost both sides a total of some $3,000,000. Maximum penalty possible is a $5,000 fine for each of the companies and $5,000 or a year in jail for each of the men. But before anyone pays a dollar in fines or serves a day in jail the Supreme Court will probably have to have...
...from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time. In 1935, in the Cherry Hill prison of Philadelphia, he died. His modest brother Joe was with him at the time...
...saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough to know better." Joe Buzzard agreed. The suitcase for whose theft he began his 14th jail term belonged to a shoe salesman, contained nothing but tennis shoes, all for the left foot...