Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme Court ordered him to pay back to the city treasury, at the rate of $500 a week, $42,629 which he had been found guilty of accepting as graft. But Curley, oozing martyrdom, turned both cases into political assets. Campaigning from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling how he perjured himself on the civil service exam in order to get a job for a destitute friend with a wife and four children. On the second occasion, he let Boston know that he was selling the family silver. Promptly John...
...village, screaming for help. An Indian god, she told the villagers, had dropped from the sky and fallen in love with her. Next morning five policemen and the entire populace of Itacuarare marched into the jungle, finally captured Tarzan and dragged him, biting and scratching, to the village jail...
Then one morning in late November 1940, while Kitty was away, the Gestapo knocked at the door, carried Mrs. Shiber off to jail. Later the Nazis bagged Kitty and the priest. Mrs. Shiber was sentenced to three years at hard labor. Kitty and the priest were sentenced to death. But Mrs. Shiber believes that Kitty has not been executed, is in prison in Germany. The priest, according to Mrs. Shiber, was snatched from prison the day before his execution by two British Intelligence officers dressed in Nazi uniforms...
...world government, to be strong in its own right, would have to be the master of its members. It would have to be granted by the separate nations a sizable chunk of their sovereignty. It would have to be able to deal directly with people-to tax them, jail them, regulate them, protect them. It would have to be a federation, a genuine union...
...have become President when Arias was deposed (TIME, Oct. 20, 1941). Was he not the first of three Vice Presidents, and therefore first in line to the succession? But the post was never offered to him. As a matter of fact, when Arias was replaced, Dr. Pezet was in jail...