Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...properly. Unless they succeed in removing Communists, there will be nothing but ruin for this country." Patel did not wait for the unions to arrest Communist leaders. He started a roundup of his own. By week's end, some 1,000 Communists were crammed into already-bulging provincial jails. In the New Delhi legislature a bill was introduced which would impose stiff fines and jail sentences for strikers against essential industries, i.e., railways, postal telegraph and telephone, arms manufactures...
...Kelly) is so fed up she has left him. But Charlie is being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn't blink at plotting the murder of a blabbing witness. Charlie finally feels driven to suicide...
...cannot advertise its existence-not even with a bulletin board. It cannot be listed in the public directories." According to Bigart, a Protestant clergyman "suffers much the same type of persecution as the Roman Catholic clergy endure in Communist Hungary," although he noted that no Protestant clergyman is in jail...
Teacher. In Providence, John A. Quigley's nine-month term in jail for drunken driving was reduced to three months when a prominent attorney testified: "He's the fellow who showed me how to get sober in Alcoholics Anonymous...
This Way Out. In Hope Mills, N.C., the local constable obliged when Robert Allen made a frantic appeal to him: "You've got to put me in jail. I've got two wives and I just can't stand it any more...