Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed to be female, but smelling dismally of alcohol, were carried in blankets from fraternity houses. "Liquor and women have become a craze." Crime increases; "the County jail would be filled twice a week if every offender were sent up." University officials denied that such revels ever occurred except possibly in vacation periods but agreed with Judge Stolen that dissolute students should suffer for their vices the severest penalty that the law allows...
Justly bewildered observers resented the incoherence of the narrative. Dug from the worried contents as best it can be, it is this: A miner in a West Virginia coal town breaks jail. He bayonets a soldier of the invading companies sent to subdue strike disturbances by martial law. Pursued, he finds momentary safety in a mine shaft and there assaults a little Jewish maiden. He is captured, blinded, hanged. His mother, the girl and her father are clutched by the Ku Klux, rescued by agitators. The murderer returns sightless and amalgamates himself with the girl, about to be a mother...
...subversive organizations had been rooted out; that people had been terrified by many hundreds of domiciliary searches made by rowdy and violent Fascisti; that scores of cafés had been forced to close their doors; that hundreds of agitators, revolutionaries and other suspects had been hurled into jail. Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, had, as promised, pacified all Italy in 48 hours (TIME, Jan. 12). The Premier had kept his word. The strange noises which were heard were only the dull thuds and thumps of a political Opposition that had temporarily been put out of harm...
...Judge, "legal hairsplitter" (as the Republicans called him) "honest, impartial, fearless patriot" (as the Monarchists called him) found that Editor Rothardt was guilty of insulting the President, sentenced him to three months in jail and payment of all costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...Cabinet marched in a body to the Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...