Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night in Jail. After graduation from Harvard, cum laude, Chris enrolled at the Columbia University architecture school and New York's School of Applied Design. But at his class's first reunion back at Harvard, in 1916, a classmate who was about to leave for a minor post in the U.S. embassy in Berlin told the aspiring architect about another opening at the embassy, urged him to apply for it. A week later young Herter sailed for Europe with his friend...
...became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...enthusiastic New Hampshire resident nick-named "Duke" has spent a chilly and voluntary week-end in the Charles Street jail because he objects to the Massachusetts non-resident income tax. A.A. ("Duke") Vautier, an engineer in a Boston firm, refused to pay a $140 income tax bill, and, apparently after some maneuvering, managed to get himself arrested, so that his could be a test case...
...protest the income tax. They have been trying to get arrested for some time, and have posted signs along the roads leading into Massachusetts with mottos like "entering Tax-achusetts. Watch your wallets." After Mr. Vautier's arrest, they precipitated a minor riot around the Charles Street Jail, pointing out that their children do not go to Massachusetts schools, and that they partake very little in the benefits of the tax system of the state of Massachusetts. But more than that, they argue, this is a matter of principle. It is, in fact, taxation without representation. What we fought against...