Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone. FBI agents rushed to the Manhattan apartment in which Eisler had been living while appealing two jail sentences-one for contempt of Congress, another for falsifying an application for an exit permit. Eisler was gone. The Department of Justice was not only red-faced, but flabbergasted. The little man had been trying to get back to Germany ever since publicity had ruined his effectiveness in the U.S. in 1946. (The U.S. preferred to jail him rather than let him loose to raise trouble in Berlin...
Returned. Gerhart was docile as a dove as the tender reached for the dock, and he was polite and pleasant after being installed in Southampton jail. But the Polish embassy in Britain issued a statement for him: "I am the first prisoner of the North Atlantic pact, this unholy alliance of reaction . . . Down with the American gendarmes ... I am being kidnaped by the British authorities...
Police revealed yesterday that Bert MacLeech, 40-yard-old student at the Graduate School of Education, was bailed out of jail late Wednesday by a woman identified as his fourth wife. MacLeech had been arrested early that morning on perjury charges, filed by officials in Tacoma, Washington...
...house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness; it made the Dickens novels, says Author Pearson, seem like "a blazing volcano of genius almost entirely surrounded by a morass of imbecility...
Inside Job. In Quincy, Calif., Henry B. Davis was ordered to reimburse the state for the $126 in unemployment checks he had collected during his six-month stay in jail...