Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of Bridgeton, N.J. (pop. 23,000) ordered that drunks be charged rent (to be paid by working in a municipal park) while sobering up in the city jail...
Religious Jews were also calling for an official investigation. Two orthodox Jews, cooks in the army, had been sentenced to three months in jail and had had their heads shaved when they refused an order to cook on the Sabbath. (Ben-Gurion revoked the jail sentences, but could do nothing about the sidecurls, particularly precious to orthodox Jews.*) Even Rabbi Fishman, who had been protesting the official use of government cars on the Sabbath, had a complaint to make. His own official automobile-with "Minister of Religion" printed prominently on the windshield-had been seen on the Sabbath cruising about...
Communist Reporter Gregory Staktopoulos and his mother, Anna, were in jail. Communist Leader Adam Mouzenides, named as the trigger man, and one Evangelos Vasvanas were at large. According to the official version, the killing was plotted by the Cominform, executed by the Greek Communist Party in the hope that it could be blamed on rightists and used to discredit the Greek government in the eyes of the world...
Well Off. In Indianapolis, Lifer Walter Seward, paroled from the Indiana State Prison after a total of 22 years, was so shocked at the high cost of living that he persuaded the Division of Correction to send him back to jail...
During the night, while the Sternists slept, units of the Israeli army ringed the jail with armored cars at ten-yard intervals. A loudspeaker in the courtyard summoned the prisoners to come out in groups of five and submit to search. As they surrendered, they were bundled off under heavy guard to the high-walled prison fortress of Acre. At the last count, 20 to 40 prisoners were still missing. Said a bemused government spokesman: "They probably went home to see their families and will be back in a few days...