Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tocsin had sounded. When she came to Thiais, the proletarians were gathered, several thousand strong. For Marx and Mary, fists flew, clubs thudded. Again police broke up the fray. Out of the melee they yanked six Communists, three seminarists and one priest to spend the night in jail...
...faith provoked. In 1917, when he was 48, he led his first revolutionary general strike. He was arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. Elected to the Cortes, he was released and permitted to take his seat. When he was 61, in 1930, he tried revolution again, spent three months in jail. In 1934 Largo Caballero was hurled into jail a third time, charged with helping foment the Asturian miners' revolt...
...welcome to Mayor Curley after he had been found guilty by a Federal Court (in Washington, D.C.) of using the mails to defraud. Catholic Curley, who is a congressman ($10,000 a year) as well as mayor of Boston ($20,000), began his political career in 1903 with a jail sentence (for taking a civil service examination for a friend), yet has served four times as mayor, one term as governor, despite being forced to pay back $42,629 which he had grafted from the city. Charged Critic "Loughlin": Curley's "long career has been possible only through...
...fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail to await a jury's definition of justice...
...tragedy had one more chapter. Two days later there was a melee in the jail. State patrolmen shot two of their Negro prisoners to death. Once the spark was kindled, in towns like Columbia, there was no stopping...