Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sympathy, he continued, came from both extreme left and extreme right, and the mails brought letters from persons as different as a pair of America's "highest ranking divines" are from a prisoner in a North Carolina jail...
...passed in 1799) that strangers be able to give a good account of themselves. Susan's account, including her admittedly phony name, was not good enough for the easily irritated Jersey cops. But Susan was as stubborn as they were. After she had been in jail 23 days, Assistant Prosecutor Stephen Toth Jr. tried to reason with her. But Susan, whose description and fingerprints had been sent to the FBI and all state police, claimed that her right name was her own affair. She was heartless, the sheriff said...
Finally, Prosecutor Toth asked that Susan be sent to jail for six months for persistent disorderly conduct. Judge Irving S. Reeve, president of the Bergen County Bar Association, agreed. Then the press heard about the case...
...York Herald Tribune's William Attwood got into the antiCommunist, anti-Franco northern Basque provinces last week, found "a facade of order and prosperity that would deceive a casual tourist, a poverty-stricken land where a man who dares to say what he thinks is thrown into jail-or worse...
...biggest flop was the Kansas City machine. Scrapped for junk after Uncle Tom Pendergast went to jail in 1941, the steamroller had been repaired by Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...