Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the crook in jail to the Lawmaker of a country...
...delegates as the convention entered its second week was a proposed boycott on Japanese-made goods, similar to the four-year-old A. F. of L. .boycott on German imports. President Charles P. Howard of the International Typographical Union even suggested a 30-day jail sentence for purchasers of Japanese products. Mr. Howard, who provided the convention's only excitement, was out of order in speaking up at all in Denver, for the reason that the convention refused to seat him. So far he has successfully kept one foot in each Labor camp-by being both secretary...
Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...
Headstrong always, at 15 he ran away, was returned home to finish high school. On graduation in 1917 he was off again, this time to Kansas City, where as a cub on the Star he nosed the beaten track of hospital, morgue and jail. War was in all minds, however, and a few months later he joined an ambulance unit bound for the Italian front. There he transferred to the Italian infantry; soon after, in a trench-mortar explosion, got a wound that retired him from active service. Of his War experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent...
...Chadron, Neb., two men arrived at the town jail to visit their inmate brother. Sheriff William Moody locked them up with their brother, promptly forgot them, went off to a meeting in another town. Several hours later he remembered, telephoned his wife to release them...