Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered to the floor. In jail, Avila Camacho later talked to his attacker, let it be known through a spokesman that Lieut. Lama y Rojas was a "Nazi sympathizer." Lieut. Lama y Rojas complained: "There is no justice...
...good are U.S. mental hospitals? They are not as bad as the 18th Century Bedlams, which were a cross between a filthy jail and a callous human zoo; but they are nowhere near up to the humane and efficient standard of U.S. hospitals proper. This was the gist of a report made last week by a New York State Commission...
...plot of "Missing Girls" is closely autobiographical, for its author, Matin Mooney, was a New York newspaper man who period into that city's underworld ten years ago and was martyred by a jail sentence for insisting on the journalistic principle of refusing to reveal his sources of information. For all who remember this stirring episode in American newspaper history, "Missing Girls," featuring inimitable performances by such Hollywood notables as Roger Pryor, and Muriel Evans, is a must...
Sixty-three years ago infant Manitoba quarreled with Ontario over provincial boundaries. Manitoba incorporated the straggling border settlement of Rat Portage (now Kenora), set up a magistrate, a police force and a jail. So did Ontario...
When his daughters were born, he ran dazedly away to hide, crying: "A man like me should be kept in jail." As any father would, he made a scene when control of his new daughters was taken from his hands, given to a Government-appointed board of guardians. It was another affront to his paternal dignity when the girls were kept in aseptic isolation in a fancy hospital-home of their own. For almost ten years Oliva Dionne had nursed a wounded pride. Last week he won a great victory...