Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro is later arrested, identified by the girl, and cast into Columbia jail under the authority of a United States Sheriff. The little town begins to talk excitedly and then to whisper...
MISSISSIPPI: Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, ex-governor, was fined $100 and sent to jail for 30 days because he failed to answer a subpoena to appear as a witness in a sensational breach of promise case against the present governor. His sentence was later reduced to ten days and the fine remitted, but meanwhile he announced from jail his candidacy in the next gubernatorial election...
...They send their political rivals to jail, to mid-ocean islands or to Australia, whence, if lucky, they escape to New York...
...little foundry back East," continued Mr. Vauclain. " I'd like to see any union labor leader start something among them. Why, when the railway strike was starting a bunch of labor delegates came around to the plant. In 20 minutes I had every damned one of them in jail. I was told that I had no right to put them in jail. I said: ' But they're in jail, aren't they? Now go and get them out.' You've got to act quick when you're facing a crisis...
...Mary MacSwiney, Countess Markievicz, Count Plunkett, all prominent Republicans, were arrested and placed in Tipperary jail...