Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from that of "Sir Patrick Murphy, ex-governor of the Bahamas" to that of "Roland Jones, heir to a fortune," 35-year-old Charlie had suavely separated hundreds of impressionable Britons from thousands of pounds. Born to middle-class respectability, he had spent a third of his life in jail and only nine months in the army. His only decoration was a dishonorable discharge...
...Jail. While Deputies passionately talked, word spread among the thousands of Algerians in the slums of Paris: strike on Friday. Paris woke up to find scores of little cafés closed and many local industries, including the Citroen plant, crippled for lack of workers. Police strengthened their cordon around the Chamber of Deputies, while the garde mobile (riot police) set up strongpoints all over Paris. By 1 p.m. thousands of Algerians had gathered at the Moslem mosque near the Gare d'Austerlitz. At 3 p.m. they formed themselves into a straggling parade led by a girl dressed...
...marchers spread out into a formless crowd, a jauntily kepied high-ranking police officer held the anxious leaders in conversation. Then suddenly the big blue police vans roared down with reinforcements of police. Surrounded by hundreds of wellarmed, disciplined men, one thousand Algerians yielded and were trucked off to jail. Frisked (of knives, stilettos, pieces of steel) and fingerprinted for future reference, most were later released...
Last week, to the stunned amazement of all Brazil, Adhemar was back in the soup. Briskly reversing an earlier acquittal, Sao Paulo's state supreme court found Adhemar guilty of giving away five state-owned trucks, and sentenced him to two years in jail and five years' suspension of his civil rights, i.e., his all-important right to run for governor of Sao Paulo in 1958 or President again in 1960. The latter penalty was a grievous blow for Adhemar; he ran a close third in last October's na tional election, racked up a solid...
...trial was held without jury in January with U.S. District Judge Burnite S. Matthews presiding. If the conviction is upheld on appeal, Singer faces up to a year in jail and $1,000 fine on each count...