Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asked, along with other U.S. writers, to wire protests to the U.N., Novelist William Faulkner refused, adding: "Any time we stop hollering and instead organize a posse to penetrate the Iron Curtain to try to tear down a jail and save one innocent victim, I will make...
Giju Manabe, 66-year-old member of the Japanese Diet, felt he was a victim of circumstances. His constituency straddles Tokyo's red-light district. Last week, bailed out of jail, where he had been sent on a charge of accepting $1,400 in bribes from the brothelkeepers' association, Manabe fingered his mustache, explained: "Brothelkeepers are also voters. I had a duty to them. The prostitution problem has to be looked at from all angles...
Mother's Little Helper. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Lillian Dennis, mother of six, explained to police that she taught her ten-year-old son to steal money for everyday needs because if she did it herself, she might end up in jail and there would be no one to look after the children...
...wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure...
Self-Conviction. In Versailles, France, Red Cross Worker Maryvonne Daniel. 50, married for 27 years, complained to her husband that "other girls are freer than I am; they are widows or divorcees," was sentenced to eight years in jail for trying to attain widowhood by starting a fire while husband Joseph was asleep...