Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile two civil suits have been tried?one in California for the cancelation of Mr. Doheny's lease of the Elk Hills reserve, one in Wyoming for the cancelation of Mr. Sinclair's lease of Teapot Dome. Decisions have not been handed down. In any event, no jail sentence and no criminality is involved...
...came? To date, only that he?one of the greatest constitutional lawyers in the Senate, one of the most conscientious, careful-minded men?is the greatest discoverer of political mud in this generation. This will be all?unless Mr. Fall or Mr. Sinclair or Mr. Doheny goes to jail. If one of them serves a jail sentence, then that finely molded head of Senator Walsh becomes much more?it becomes heroic, the chiseled likeness of a patriot, vigilant, unforgetting, bold...
...FALL GUY?Wherein a poor man almost gets rich and almost goes to jail for becoming a bootlegger against his will...
...moderate liberalism eventually clashed with the absolutism of Lenin-Trotzky; and, in 1922, when the latter decreed the confiscation of all church property, Patriarch Tikhon was thrown into jail for his opposition. The Red (Living) Church was promptly convened to unfrock him. Early in 1923, a Roman Catholic monsignor was beheaded. Tikhon, awaiting trial, prepared for the same fate. But Lenin halted. Tikhon signed a retraction and was freed...
...reasons for taking up counterfeiting: men had to have currency and he a living. Why, he would do mankind a service and after he had got rich, succor the poor! But his first bad dollars bought him a cell; and for several years he had to concentrate on breaking jail...