Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front of a Fisher Body plant. City police, called after strikers had locked up three private company policemen in the plant, used fire hose and tear...
...road-house, from the proceeds of which he hopes to keep young Miss Fellows out of an orphanage. Madge Evans, the only one who emerges from the picture without loss of reputation, is the feminine gendarme who is ordered to put the little girl into the young people's jail. The roadhouse folds up, the orphanage refuses the Fellows menace, and Crosby falls in to Park lake in New York, So it all ends happily...
...interests was enough to prime everyone's curiosity and it was soon at bursting point. In Government circles it was said that the Young Marshal was going to be tried before the Dictator by some Chinese judges and jurors and that their verdict would be ten years in jail, followed by commutation of this sentence to zero days in jail...
...everything and asked heaviest punishment. These court proceedings took about 90 minutes, but the judges and jurymen deliberated for several hours, sending out word to friends from time to time that ten years was going to be the verdict. They then sentenced the Young Marshal to ten years in jail plus loss of civil rights for five years -and he drove with his clattering escort to the handsome villa of Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung to await, in luxurious surroundings, commutation of his sentence...
...jail he found a battery of newspaper photograhers and reporters, but was shielded from them by Charles R. Apted, Superintendent of the Yard police, who also furnished the bail...