Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Price of Admission. In San Diego, police granted Willie Reuben's request to be put in jail when he handed over five marijuana cigarettes...
Last Gasp. In Cincinnati, Travis Zellis. sentenced to 90 days in jail for larceny, was sent home on probation after fellow prisoners and guards complained that his snore was too loud...
...prevent the Communists from taking over the revolution in turn, and sought to create a third group in Iraq loyal to him instead of to Cairo or Moscow. Against the advice of the Communists, who cry for blood vengeance, Kassem last week continued to release political prisoners from jail, and declared an amnesty for all those "who indulged in conflict which endangered the security and order of the country." Kassem also fired Baghdad's pro-Communist police chief, Abdul Baki Kadhim, replacing him with one of his own supporters, Taha Shaikly, who promptly cracked down on Communist demonstrations...
Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
Died. Maurice M. Milligan, 74, tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...