Word: jailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife by the system. Work for men was impossible to find in Harrisburg. He was living and working in Chicago--sending his wage back to the people downstate. He was an extremely aggressive man, and since aggression on the part of the slave means crime, he was in jail now and then. He tried to direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that it was the worst form of niggerism to hook...
...board's guidance informally before negotiating wage increases or raising prices. As a last resort, the board could forbid by law or rescind any increases that it found excessive. It could seek injunctions and fines against flagrant violators of its rulings; Robert Nathan would go further and provide jail sentences...
...Industry, the government was scandalized by a $190 million textile credit embezzlement, the Matesa case, and would have been deeply embarrassed if the case had ever been fully exposed. But, in observance of the 35th anniversary last week, Franco ordered a broad amnesty releasing 3,000 people from jail and dropping charges against anyone facing a penalty of less than six months, a category that includes embezzlement. Thus the Matesa case is closed...
Freely admitting her role in the affair, Lady Fleming told the court: "I could not bear the thought that he was being inhumanly tortured in jail." Why did she do it? Friends said she was convinced that Panaghoulis was a tyrannoktonos (in the ancient Greek sense, a man who kills a tyrant) and was therefore "the conscience of Greece" and had to be saved...
...formidable levels of noise, the citywide crusade for quiet is off to a good start. Environmental officers have swarmed through business and residential areas, recording violations on sensitive decibel meters. Offenders are sent to face judges who can mete out penalties as high as $500 plus six months in jail. As a result of the crackdown, residents are already beginning to notice small but audible changes. Car-pool drivers, instead of impatiently honking their horns, now wait silently for tardy passengers. The once clangorous chimes of St. Peter's United Church of Christ on the Northwest side have been...