Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telling how he had used Teamsters' money to finance, among other things, his racing stables. Despite this plea, made before a federal judge in Washington, Handsome Frank was convicted (TIME, July 8), and last week he got the maximum penalty for contempt of Congress: a year in jail and a $1,000 fine...
...past the Senate. He talked to Southern Senators-Georgia's Richard Russell, Mississippi's John Stennis, North Carolina's Sam Ervin-and gauged the intensity of their reaction. That night Lyndon and Sam met secretly: the Senate, said Lyndon, would probably accept 30 days in jail and a $200 fine as the dividing line between judicial decree and jury trials in criminal contempt cases having to do with voting rights...
...newsmen to pressagentry. the bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other Hearst city editor, made the Examiner (circ. 350,739) Los Angeles' most readable daily and a clamor that echoes from the smallest cell in the Lincoln Heights jail to the flossiest mansion in Westwood...
...half of Krupp's steelmaking capacity, carried the equipment away, destroyed 2,000,000 machines and tools. But they could not destroy the spirit of Krupp's workers, who halted the dismantling process by going on strike during the French occupation. Furious, the French threw Gustav in jail for seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research, producing small quantities of tanks, guns, even submarines. Gustav...
...Jail. In 1943 Allied bombers started the rain of bombs on Krupp's Essen plant that eventually destroyed a third of it. That same year the aging, ailing Gustav got Hitler to declare legal the famed Lex Krupp, giving the Krupps the privilege henceforth to name one successor as the sole owner of the empire. He would arrange substantial allowances for the rest of the family, among whom stock had previously been split. Gustav stepped down, and Alfried, a sensitive, retiring young man. became ruler of the vast Krupp holdings. For the rest of the war, he left most...