Word: jaile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week from Los Angeles' skyscraper jail where police had taken him to prevent a lynching attempt, came the name of the murderer to Mrs. Dyer. It was her own husband...
...life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came to power, wrote a book about it (I was Hitler's Prisoner), then built up Weekly Illustrated for Odhams Press Ltd. An indicated 150,000 customers stepped up to buy the first (July) issue, printed and distributed by the big firm...
Announcing that he would appeal John Hunt revealed that he had spent a night in jail trying to convert his cellmate Robert S. James, a barber awaiting execution for drowning his wife after trying to murder her with a rattlesnake. Prisoner Hunt found Prisoner James "receptive...
Since the Ohio constitution makes no provision for martial law the militiamen were nominally at the command of the local sheriffs. Sheriff Elser of Mahoning County, mortally feared & hated by Youngstown strikers, promptly clapped nearly 200 unionists in jail for carrying concealed weapons and on "suspicion." What was worse, he left them there without arraigning them until a judge, outraged by such "willful failure" to grant the prisoners their constitutional right to a hearing, gave the sheriff a thoroughgoing public reprimand...
...friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought several old commodity firms to bankruptcy, cost the public many a million, landed Kings Bishirgian & Howeson in jail and London's pepper market in thorough disrepute (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935 & March 2, 1936). This scandal combined last year with a freight war (making it cheaper to ship pepper to the U. S. than to Europe) to steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London...