Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the United Auto Workers' latest demands, nothing much remains for them but to take over the auto industry by holdup. Reuther should be put to hard labor in jail for endangering the welfare of the nation. Communists all over the world are now entitled to be highly amused to see this exhibition of what we still call Free Enterprise...
Tally Forge. In Dallas, Leonard Bennett Burris, in jail for forgery, was made a trusty in the records division, juggled the dates on his own records to show that his term had begun three months before he was sentenced, also gave himself 113 days' credit for good behavior, walked out a free...
Protective Custody. In Cincinnati, after an argument with his wife, Cyril Fisher heaved stones through three plate-glass windows, finally got police to put him in jail...
Fulgencio Batista got ready for the strike by offering immunity to anyone who killed a striker and by threatening to jail any employer who closed shop. He marshaled 4,000 soldiers. His labor lieutenant, Eusebio Mujal, Hoffa-style boss of the 1,200,000-member Cuban Labor Federation, ordered workers to stay on their jobs or lose them for good. Playing the genial host to U.S. newsmen (see PRESS) at a party three days before the strike, Batista said, half in joke and half in earnest: "We'll soon see how hard it is to make this dictator fall...
...near the revolution. In Havana beaming President Fulgencio Batista entertained 26 newsman at his 100-acre estate, served them daiquiris and charm, fondled kittens for photographers. But at the very moment Batista was being nice to some newsmen in Havana, his soldiers were throwing others into jail in strife-torn Santiago de Cuba. There, soon after arrival, the Chicago Sun-Times's Ray Brennan, NEA's Ward Cannel and Las Vegas TV Reporter Alan Jarlson were herded into a filthy jail and held incommunicado for nearly ten hours. Miami TV Cameraman Ben Silver was imprisoned for four days...