Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Salem Jail, brash and blustering as ever, marched Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, red-headed roughneck Mayor of Newburyport, Mass., having served his two-month term for violating ordinances of the Newburyport town council (TIME, Sept 3 et seq.'). Newsmen surrounded him. After "bawling out one of them for a story he had not liked. His Honor joined his friends, the Newburyport fire chief and superintendent of streets, and drove away to get refreshments and see a football game...
Thus a Constitutional amendment would be required before Argentina could limit immigration as does the U. S. Instead of maintaining a dread, jail-like Ellis Island, the Government at Buenos Aires welcomes immigrants in a spotless hotel, transports them free to wherever they desire to settle, and both feeds'and lodges them at their destination for a period of ten days. Scarcely surprising, therefore, is the fact that Madrid contains fewer Spaniards than Buenos Aires and Rome fewer Italians. Recently the influx of Italians has been drastically cut down, not by any Argentine restriction, but by the refusal...
Three judges of the Mexican Supreme Court went to jail last week. In the jail, at Mexico City, they crowded into a large cell with Assassin José de Leon Toral, self-confessed slayer of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...
...appeal was heard in a cell to give Assassin Toral every protection from a howling mob outside the jail which wanted to lynch him. At the expiration of the hearing, the three Supreme Court Judges majestically departed giving no indication of whether or not they would permit Toral's case to be retried...
...behavior of the mule and the inefficiency of scene-shifters, the opening of Rainbow was a long affair, and not so auspicious as it should have been. The story, which had an epic air, concerned a buckskin buccaneer who broke jail and joined the California gold rush, gathering women on the way. His maneuvers led him to pleasing spots, where gaming tables were and where prospectors plied their toothpicks or sang unruly songs...