Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Caldwell did not consider the killing of Jesse James Payne a lynching because there was no evidence that Payne had been abducted from jail and shot by a mob. Presumably the crime was committed by one man, as yet unidentified...
...nationwide walkout of 200,000 electrical workers. In Los Angeles, steel-helmeted pickets of the United Electrical Workers ran into old-fashioned strike violence. Los Angeles police, after warning them against mass picketing, charged with tear gas and clubs, cracked heads, bloodied noses, took 25 off to jail. But the United States Motors plant at which the battle raged stayed closed. So did the lion's share of other U.S. factories which manufacture toasters, irons, light plugs, and generators for the world's most electrified country...
...past, Jim Curley's conviction would not stop him from being Massachusetts' most agile and successful politician. He had once been jailed for violation of the Civil Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...
...every documentary of first-rate interest. (Notable omissions: all newsreels since 1931; issues of MARCH OF TIME since 1940.) But cinemaddicts who still doubt that the documentary is growing up might do well to paste the following titles in their hats, and to see them-in parish house, college, jail, or Manhattan-if opportunity offers...
...weekends when skiing conditions are good, the special snow trains of the Boston & Maine railroad pour as many as 3,000 skiers into North Conway. They sleep in the Skimobile house and even in the village jail. And they wilt spend about $2,500,000 this season in the village stores...