Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the neighbors learned differently. Detectives clapped the "clergy" of the Community Mission 'into jail, and with them a lay brother named William J. Hager. The "Archbishop," it developed, was known in ruder circles as "Dutch Willy." Father Appleby had been convicted of rape in 1927. Father Norman was known to the police as Raymond...
Finally, by a vote of 63-10-16, the Senate passed the "voluntary" O'Mahoney-Kilgore substitute, with fine-or-jail penalties for employers who violate controls of the War Manpower Commission, with utterly no compulsion for workers. Snorted Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, who had been for a national service...
Ever since they crushed out of the Council Bluffs, Iowa "escape-proof" jail eight weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 29), the Toothbrush Twins had been touring the U.S. The two hoodlums-tough, tall John Giles and tough, short Edgar Cook-gained their freedom and their nicknames by unlocking six steel doors with a toothbrush and a wooden spoon. They made their escape in a blue police car, abandoned it, stole another automobile, abandoned it, stole another-and in this fashion set out across the countryside, plying their trade (burglary) from time to time...
...before the war, about 100,000 are still church members. One who has stood firm, said the Korean, is the famed Japanese Christian leader, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). Though it was widely rumored that he supported the government's warmongering, Kagawa actually was thrown in jail nearly two years ago for his open opposition...
...better as a bellboy. The naked white prostitutes paid no attention to him when he delivered bootleg whiskey to their rooms, though their customers sometimes objected. Because he had never been in jail, he was picked by racketeers as front for a movie-ticket racket. He made $50 the first week. But he knew he was headed for the chain gang. He saved his money, stole everything he could lay hands on, pawned it, and fled to Memphis. There he began to read Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, and to see the white men around him in a different light...