Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political fight of his career by refusing to vote for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. William De Koning, Nassau County's racketeering labor boss, called on Hall in a rage. Hall still quivers with indignation when he recalls it: "This labor thug-he is just out of jail-came to see me to raise hell about Taft-Hartley. Finally, he took the position I had to go along with him against the Act or else. I told him to get the hell out of my office...
...your own attitude toward your conduct?" Dr. Knapp mumbled apologetically: "I am ashamed of it." In light of the defendant's age (72) and diabetic condition, the court suspended a one-to-seven-year penitentiary sentence but ordered him to serve a purgative four months in the county jail. The county medical society, distinctly not in a "most kind" mood, denied that it had ever had any knowledge of what Dr. Knapp was doing, promptly expelled...
Hothead. In Salt Lake City, arrested or willful destruction of property, Norman Doyle Curtis was charged with setting Eire to the city jail...
...except in twelve states that have laws reinforcing the tradition-he has no more right than any other citizen to withhold information. In Fort Worth last week, William Prescott Allen, 60, publisher of the Laredo, Texas Times (circ. 15,283), faced the choice of revealing sources or going to jail...
Last week a Fort Worth grand jury summoned Allen to tell where he got his information. Allen refused to tell. He was taken into court. Judge Dave McGee held him in contempt, fined him $100 and sentenced him to jail until he was ready to talk. As he turned in his neat business suit for striped dungarees, Allen said defiantly: "To expose some of this crookedness, it's worth the price. I will stay here for life if necessary...