Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editors do not put judges in jail for contempt of press, but they are not helpless?as judges know...
Because of contempt of court, three newspapermen of the South were cast into jail and another was fined...
...Baker insisted that freedom of the press is as important as the right of free speech. Judge Heflin replied that the court was higher than the newspaper, and that liberty of the press was secondary to human liberty. So he sentenced the three newspaper men to a day in jail without leave to appeal their case...
Editors in Birmingham, who will go to jail for their convictions...
PENNSYLVANIA: Women appear to have won the right to go to jail for nonpayment of taxes. After a long fight, a bill finally passed the legislature and went to the Governor for his signature. The Governor is the husband of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, who is active on behalf of women in politics. The former law, passed in 1834, provided that women, infants and persons of unsound mind could not be imprisoned for nonpayment of taxes...