Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Keeping a date with the law, Manhattan Gambler Frank Costello, 65, turned himself over to a U.S. marshal to start serving a five-year stretch for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes, was sent off to a detention jail to await his denaturalization trial next month...
Quiet Talk. Here and there in the confusion tempers flared, and small angry clashes occurred between police and citizens. Newsmen and photographers were beaten, a priest was arrested, teen-age boys were hauled off to jail for demonstrating with posters (RETURN GOD TO YUGOSLAVIA) and shouting, "Free Cardinal Stepinac...
...subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise the feasts. Forty extra taxicabs of 2O-year vintage had been driven into town over the new road from India. Pink and blue bathtubs, toilets by the dozen, chickens, ducks, guinea hens, smoked salmon and gallons of Coca-Cola had all been...
...current 460). That puts heavy strain on the ceiling prices of imported goods, and the whole program is in deep trouble if price ceilings give way. Sure that they will, Labor Federation Leader Clotario Blest, blinking tired eyes in the sunny patio of Santiago's Central Jail, says: "The heart of the matter is that only the little guy will have to tighten his belt...
...misdemeanor charges only eight days after participating in the attack on Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole as he entertained an all-white audience in the Municipal Auditorium (TIME, April 23). As a warning against similar incidents in Birmingham, Judge Parker imposed on each the maximum six-month jail sentence and $100 fine. Two other white-supremacy fanatics who led the charge against Cole waived preliminary hearings on more serious intent-to-murder charges, must appear before a grand jury...