Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scores of Mexican youths had been stripped of their pants (some of them on the stages of movie houses), beaten and then arrested by the Los Angeles police for "vagrancy" and "rioting." (The police practice was to accompany the caravans in police cars, watch the beatings and then jail the victims. Their orders apparently were to let the Shore Patrol and the Military Police handle the rioting sailors. The service police were futile.) But now the rioting seemed to be diminishing. The zoot-suiters lay low, the sailors and soldiers had seemingly wreaked sufficient revenge for the several occasions when...
...Make strike "incitement" punishable by a year in jail and $5,000 fine...
...years Duffy's has acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book...
...democratic, popular Irish-Negro leader of the People's National Party, one time Rhodes Scholar and personal friend of Sir Stafford Cripps. W. A. Domingo, a Negro labor leader, was released from the detention camp where he had been held without hearing for 18 months. Also out of jail was the rambunctious labor demagogue Alexander Bustamante. Governor Richards announced an expansion of public works to reduce unemployment, said that a minimum-wage law would be considered and an effort made to hold living costs at 60% above the 1939 level...
...Berry was the umpteenth* Chaplin protégée. For her he bought Paul Vincent Carroll's religious drama Shadow & Substance, but the picture was never produced. Last January, Beverly Hills police arrested Miss Berry on a charge of annoying Chaplin; she was given a 90-day jail sentence (suspended) and then ordered out of town. Last month she was picked up again near the Chaplin mansion, charged with vagrancy and given a 30-day sentence. Last fortnight she lunched with Chaplin. Last week she said she had slipped into his house and heard him talking fondly...