Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shop, one gun & locksmith and one newspaper. . . . Our municipal government is stable. Its wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality are less than $12,000. We have no jail because we don't need one. In the entire community dwell 8,000 Negroes and we have not had a capital crime in 13 years. . . . The citizens of Mound Bayou dwell in security. They are the heirs of freedom . . . and will forever look with disdain on acts of tyranny...
...duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their separation. They consequently gave much aid and comfort in Flanders to the invading German Army. For such acts of "treachery" many of King Albert's Flemish subjects were condemned to varying prison terms and many, when they got out of jail, remained deprived of their civil rights, unable to vote in Belgian elections. To end this state of affairs and let bygones be bygones, is the purpose of the Amnesty Law (TIME, June 14), but ever since being enacted it has been strenuously backfiring...
...York's Rikers Island jail 44-year-old Socialite Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte visited her husband, 30-year-old onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte. Haled into court to answer a three-year-old speeding charge by police who arrested him while he was tinkering his swank racing car at Roosevelt Raceway, he had received a severe judicial reprimand, a sentence of five days which he spent washing windows...
...truth about John Montague came out last week but not on a golf course. It came out in Los Angeles County Jail where he was taken after being arrested because his fingerprints matched those of La Verne ("Bull") Moore...
...safe and sane Fourth of July." Preliminary reports of the July 4th holiday weekend showed 437 deaths in 46 States: 104 drownings, 247 traffic deaths, 86 others including six from fireworks. New Jersey's authorities hoped to provide a salutary example to other States by threatening to jail (90 days) and fine ($100) any one who sold or even possessed any kind of fireworks, including cap pistols and sparklers...