Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between Wars: Returning to Yugoslavia in 1920, Tito was jailed on arrival. Later, under the dictatorship of King Alexander, Tito organized a Communist metalworkers' union, and paid the penalty: five years in a royal jail. Released in 1934, Tito became a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party, and was sent to Moscow to study Marxism. Thereafter, using false names and forged passports, Tito flitted from capital to capital in Europe, organizing strikes, recruiting Red volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, at the height of the great purge wave in Moscow, he was named...
When unrest spread to Moscow, Stalin gave him extraordinary powers. Comrade Kaganovich built the famed Moscow subway; he also cast thousands of Moscovites into jail and changed Moscow into a bastion of the party line. Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...
...happy, living with "My Aunt Sarah, who was my first real friend." In Boston, at 23, Dorothea Dix is engaged, but proves so reluctant to give up work in the school she has started that the romance collapses. Sixteen years later, on her first visit to the East Cambridge jail, where lunatics are kept alongside prisoners, one inmate snarls at her: "You couldn't attract a man if you tried." Dorothea answers: "Your words open an old wound. You see, I have my troubles, too." But thereafter she makes the troubles of the mentally ill her preoccupation...
When Cleveland Press staffers took a courtroom picture of a deposed local judge on trial for embezzlement, the judge hearing the case objected. But the Press went ahead anyway, was held in contempt of court (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) and fined $700 plus a token jail term for the city editor-one hour in the sheriff's custody. The Press's Editor Louis Seltzer announced that he would appeal the verdict to the highest courts...
Woman's Best Friend. In Pittsburgh, unable to pay a $10 fine for disorderly conduct in attempting to rescue his dog from the dogcatcher, Carmen Traficanti spent the night in jail after his wife appeared, bailed...