Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
...time?a thing practically impossible on account of expense. Not even a jury trial is granted. One judge by a simple decision can put a paper out of business indefinitely and if thereafter the publisher prints any defamatory statement, whether true or not, the judge can send him to jail for contempt of court...
Sentence. Judge Burrows decreed a fine of $300. Mrs. Dennett said she would go to jail sooner than pay it. Her friends planned to give her pamphlet to President Hoover, asked help...
...striker's grocery store, tossed out its contents, departed into the darkness-before-dawn, leaving this sign: WE HAVE QUIT YOUR DAMN UNION In their underclothes, National Guardsmen rushed up just in time to arrest the no-longer snoring strikers and lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union is a Communist organization. The United Textile Workers' Union is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. A contest for control had flared up between these...
...racehorses of Harry Ford Sin clair, jail-bound oilman, are not to be barred from Maryland race tracks this year. So announced Chairman James A. Latane of the Maryland Racing Commission, last week. For a time last year Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided...