Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago while I was serving as Sheriff of Mobile County, Ala. a Mobile policeman was shot down and killed by a criminal Negro who was apprehended and lodged in jail. Feeling ran high and word was brought to me that types described by the Attorney General were organizing to take and lynch the prisoner. I had several of them brought to the sheriff's office and said to them: "I want to make you a proposition...
...will get the president of the Protestant Ministers' Union, the Catholic Bishop and the Jewish Rabbi, together with the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to join with you in leading a mob on the jail, I will turn the prisoner over to you-otherwise you will never get him, for I now have the jail packed with National Guardsmen." No mob came and the prisoner was legally executed about 90 days later...
...Congressional investigation. The Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 forbids any corporation to make a political contribution in any Federal election. Either, he thought, the law had been broken (penalty: for corporations $5,000 fine; for their guilty officers, and for political beneficiaries $1,000 fine, a year in jail) or a loophole had been found which needed plugging. Mr. Early wanted it recorded that when the President filled his idle hours writing his name on pieces of paper, he had no notion that they would be sold to corporate bibliophiles...
...everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
...Irina was famous and Ivan a hunted revolutionary. And they met only to quarrel. Then the Revolution broke and the tables turned. Now Ivan was a power and Irina a nobody, endangered. He saved her life but could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...