Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick in the trade-from threatening to confiscate the church's property to withholding newsprint from the Catholic press-to shut him up, but up to Christmastide not even Rakosi dared to touch the Cardinal's person. Last month he clapped Mindszenty's private secretary into jail for "treason." This week, under pressure from Moscow and presumably armed with a full "confession" from the secretary, Rakosi arrested Hungary's Primate for "treason, espionage and dealings in the black market...
Later he was a protégé of famed Editor Fremont Older. When Older became convinced that Tom Mooney (whom he disliked) had been railroaded to jail for the Preparedness Day bombing of 1916, the Bulletin's bosses refused to back up their editor. W. R. Hearst sent Older a wire: COME TO THE CALL. BRING THE MOONEY CASE WITH YOU. Older took Johnny Bruce with him too, and Bruce dug up the evidence that eventually helped free Mooney...
Bertie still was. In 1918, he was clapped into jail for his pacifist views, spent his 6 months' sentence writing his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Lawrence got out of England in 1919, but he never really forgave Bertie. "Have you ever seen him in a bathing dress?" he sneeringly asked a friend...
There is very little plot to get in the way of the nonsense. Two-gun Cowgirl Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is released from a jail sentence to track down some low characters who are smuggling rifles and firewater to the Indians. When three of these gimlet-eyed fellows trap her in a bath house (where she keeps her guns slung to her garters), she plugs them and larrups away with a hunt-and-peck dentist, Dr. Painless Peter Potter (Hope). She marries Painless for the sake of appearances, then gets rather fond of him. Whenever he gets...
...Hard Way. In Milwaukee, Kenneth Hanyzewski was sentenced to 90 days in jail for trying to forge Mike Grzadzieliwski's name to a check...