Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how the G.I.s out here feel about [Private] Hicswa, who was court-martialed, sentenced to die for the murder of a Japanese [TIME, Jan. 28]. The men agree that he should be punished-with a jail term-but that death is too severe. . . . We disagree with your statement that the Stateside papers "overplayed [Hicswa] . . . outrageously." The Army court-martial system is so weighted and bigoted, especially toward the enlisted man, that we feel that any and all court-martial cases should be brought before the American public. . . . (CPL.) ART YELLEN [AND FOUR...
...guards were burning the roads to Columbia. At dawn the patrolmen moved into Mink Slide, smashed its stores, pulled quaking Negroes out of the miserable buildings. As their Tommy guns blazed, one Negro was seriously shot (see cut)', the patrolmen beat others, then marched them off to jail...
Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...
...worth $2,500,000), borrowed from friends, turned his failure into an asset with the slogan "The Man Who Always Pays." Then, to support his new ventures (amalgamations of department stores, steel industries) in a weakening market, Hatry forged a series of municipal bonds, got caught, and went to jail...
...jail librarian, he developed an interest in books. Freed in 1939, he took a small, book-lined office off Fleet Street. Soon he was quietly advising several booksellers. He wrote in a trade magazine: "I am in the book trade because I like it. I knew that I was engaging in an industry in which there were no fortunes to be made...