Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lightning could strike, Atlanta police swooped down on the crowd. Lectured Police Chief M. A. Hornsby: "I want to tell you once and for all ... the Atlanta police department is policing this town." Four of the leaders, including disgruntled Homer L. Loomis Jr. and Whitman, were hustled off to jail, booked for disorderly conduct and "inciting a riot...
Imagination and his handy penmanship, however, altered Charlie's destiny. He faked a civil service rating and got a job as deputy in the county jail. Deftly he removed his criminal record from the sheriff's files. He awarded a Master of Arts degree to himself and carried around a photostatic copy. With the credentials of a dead attorney he secured admission to the California bar. To reinforce the illusion, he attended a few law classes at Loyola University in Los Angeles...
...trotting by one day, Walter decided to bash her on the head with a crowbar. When Betty's German gardener found Kasha's body in the back of Walter's shop, he notified the MPs. Kasha died without going to the stewpot, but Walter landed in jail nonetheless. Ten days later a military court found him guilty and sentenced him to one month in prison. But the court's president, young ex-Lieut. Fred Tappan, promptly suspended sentence. "I am not going to send a hungry man to jail for killing a dog," he said...
...case reached the ears of Major General F. A. Keating, Commander of U.S. Forces in Berlin, who told his deputy, dog-loving Colonel Frank L. Howley, to, investigate. The military court's order was reversed, and young Judge Tappan censured. As Locksmith Tietz was dragged off to jail again, his bewildered wife, with a large bunch of roses clutched in one hand and her small son gripped by the other, called on Miss Six. Betty took the flowers uncertainly, stammered through an interpreter that, really, she had had nothing to do with Tietz's rearrest...
...Communist press of Russia and China cheered, the Soviet consul general in Shanghai rescued from a Chinese jail an Orthodox archbishop who once fought with the Czarist armies, but was absolved last fall when he became a Soviet citizen and declared allegiance to Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, who follows the Kremlin political line. The Chinese who had arrested Archbishop Victor had accused him of helping the Japs. So did some of the anti-Soviet followers of Victor's Shanghai rival, Archbishop John of the Orthodox Church in Exile...