Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smuts. First a hut tax was imposed which forced the impecunious natives to earn white man's money. Later came a head tax of 20 shillings a year. Squads of police cruised nightly through urban "locations" (segregated residential quarters), routing all Negroes without poll-tax receipts. The penalty: jail, cuts with a thin bamboo cane-or a job in the mines. By 1938 the rural Europeans, who form 10% of the population, held 88% of the land. All adult male natives must carry passes-some of them as many as ten passes at a time...
...jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank panels and a postscript : "No grounds for libel here...
Fine Points. In Washington, Motorist William H. Burton committed 34 traffic offenses in ten minutes, got fined $1,375, drew a 495-day jail sentence when he could...
...German reporters came in, dripping wet, from a rainswept rooftop that overlooked the prison wall. To the U.P.'s Clinton Conger and the ü German DANA Agency, who had posted them, they reported seeing groups of helmeted men moving from the jail to the gymnasium. They had heard a bell toll, heard a crashing sound repeated only six times. The Germans surmised that the eleven Nazis had probably been hanged in pairs - but Conger decided to wait before filing...
...next door to Father Gibson's old-fashioned Church of the Epiphany. Last year, 7,051 persons were interviewed at the Shelter, which provided 9,661 free meals and 2,801 nights' lodging. But the ministry of Father Gibson (who also serves the inmates of Cook County Jail and the Chicago House of Correction) cannot be reduced to statistics, it is perhaps best understood in the stories men tell...