Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot (as a special privilege): five of his codefendants; two others, one of them Prince Nikolai Ukhtomsky, 51, were favored (for no obvious reason) with long jail terms...
...need only view the record of each ship as it leaves port-those left in jail, those who have run afoul of the law, those who have become diseased...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
...virility. Five days after Mayor James Curley was convicted of fraud last January, the Herald was the only Boston paper to rise up and say (in a carefully modulated voice) that it was perhaps a little regretful that a city of 770,816 should be run from a jail...
...Post-Intelligencer reporter went rummaging through the law books, found just what his editor wanted: a stiff 1909 statute aimed at dirty novels. But the P-I decided not to quote it, after reading a little further. Another section of the same statute provided identical punishment (a year in jail, $1,000 fine) for owning, lending, selling, giving away or showing any newspaper "largely made up of criminal news, police reports, accounts of criminal deeds or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or crime." A literal prosecutor, with a sly liking for gamey books, might turn that...