Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Digest. In Tulare, Calif., when Emetrio Navarrette explained that he had stolen 22 Ibs. of meat so that he could eat well, Judge Ward G. Rush sentenced him to jail, added: "Now you will eat well for six months...
...government's bland rejection of an impartial judicial commission: Was this the noble British justice they had been taught to respect? The Devlin commission had cleared Dr. Banda of inciting violence; regardless, said Lennox-Boyd, Dr. Banda and some 500 others would still be held in jail...
...their talk about "people's democracy," the Communists seemed unable to cope with Gandhi-style passive resistance except by mass arrests, using guns and steel-tipped lathees. On four separate occasions, the police fired into crowds. They killed 15 people, slapped 10,000 Gandhi-style demonstrators in jail. Nor did the Communists help their cause when they openly applauded Red China's brutal invasion of Tibet...
Judge Eyman retorted that he had not forced Korpa to do anything: "There was no obligation on the young man to accept the grace and clemency which I offered him. If he had not accepted the probation terms, he would have gone to jail. However, in accepting the offer of the court, he undertook to comply with the requirement to regularly attend his church. In my opinion, this was a reasonable requirement . . . I'm not a Catholic, but I would do this whether the boy was a Hindu, a Methodist or a Mormon...
...Central Jail, Birrell at first refused to answer questions. Having boned up thoroughly on Birrell's intricate financial machinations, Rio police were interested in his wheeler-dealing around Rio, where he tried to promote stock in a plastic company and import seven cars as personal baggage (including Cadillacs worth $14,000 each in Rio). As the police frisked Birrell, they found a fresh charge in his left coat pocket: a Canadian passport he had used for false entry into Brazil only a week before...