Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mutual Consent. In Seattle, Louis Coleman petitioned for a refund on a marriage license, explained that he and his girl were still in love but unfortunately were also in jail...
...flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
Edward McGoldrick, 39, is head of a special New York City bureau to assist the city's estimated 12,000 drunks. New York is the first big U.S. city to do more for alcoholics than throw them in jail...
...suffragist proponent of bloomers. The young lady throws in her lot with her aunt, who also hides fugitive slaves. As a result, Evelina quarrels with her Kentucky beau (David Brooks), owner of one of the fugitives; and when Auntie gets pinched for crusading, Evelina accompanies her to jail. In musicomedy, however, stone walls do not an ending make...
...nattily dressed civilian counsel made no plea, though the women themselves excitedly explained that they had just gone back to their houses to get some clothes. Captain Walitschek listened, found all four guilty, fined them each 2,000 marks ($200) with the alternative of six months in jail. Friedel Souvignier wept, the others protested. The captain was polite but unmoved. He explained to newsmen that he wanted to set an example of severity. This is the way all U.S. Army courts will deal with those Germans who flout its military laws...