Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basement found seven young strikers who started defending themselves with homemade clubs. They were overpowered and led, bleeding and beaten, to the Black Maria. All night long, more & more strikers, picked up in their homes and on the streets, were loaded into the patrol wagon and taken to jail...
Shrewd Bargainer. In Fox, Schenck has acted as peacemaker and problem-solver for Zanuck and his temperamental stars. Although a shrewd bargainer, he is known as a soft touch for down & out troupers. He took good care of everyone but himself: in 1942 he went to jail for four months for perjury arising out of a $412,000 income-tax-evasion charge. When he got out, he took up where he had left off, and, in the opinion of many Hollywood-ians, is correctly billed as the grand old man of the movies...
...lawyer for last-resort cases, Gardner works without fees, has sprung two men out of the death cell and helped get two others out of the penitentiary. But Erie Stanley Gardner, counsel for the defense, is no sentimentalist. "There are a lot of guilty people in jail," says he. "You'd be surprised, but your chances of being murdered are pretty good...
Committee rewording of H442 has changed the crime, the culprit, and the penalties since the public hearings were held on the bill. Under the new wording, "teaching the doctrines of atheistic communism" is the offense for which teachers would receive a fine, a year in jail, and banishment from the profession. This phrase replaces "advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence." Either version, however, could conceivably be applied to large bodies of people who did not hold the same views as the Commissioner of Education or the majority of the legislature...
...instance," the letter says, "both the Communist Party and the Republican Party favor an anti-poll tax law and housing laws." This would make Republican teachers liable for expulsion, a $300 fine, and jail...