Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young U.S. attorney named Maurice M. Milligan was cleaning up Kansas City, sending one Pendergast henchman after another to jail for vote frauds, getting closer & closer to the Big Boss himself. When Milligan came up for reappointment, Truman did his best to ease him out, made one of the bitterest speeches ever heard on the Senate floor. Milligan got the reappointment anyway, promptly sent Pendergast to prison for evading income taxes on some of his slush money. Truman shouted: "Purely political. . . . I won't desert a ship in distress...
...Cross. Gandhi still had one more weapon left. If nothing else, Gandhi's powerful personality had escaped from seven months' enforced obscurity in jail. Within his philosophical creed of Satyagraha, which calls on the power of "love and true knowledge" to overcome all difficulties, he might still hope to "melt the hearts" of his enemies...
Luis became a lawyer in the small town of San Bernardo near Santiago. Says he: "My clients were all poor and they never paid. I always managed to get them out of jail. Sometimes they gave me a chicken or a basket of eggs. . . . I was so successful that one day the judge said he was going to make me public prosecutor, that San Bernardo was attracting all the petty thieves. . . . So I was made public prosecutor...
Convinced that the Western mind cannot or will not attempt to understand the East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed...
Cops. In Buffalo, Joseph Swiatek and Alexander Sarnowski went to jail for stealing a coat from Harold Gebhardt, who recognized it when they tried to sell...