Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John scorned Harry Truman as "too cowardly to send me to jail" and excoriated him as a persecutor "of a group of citizens against whom he has a malignant personal hatred...
...government of Israel gave the impression that it would seriously try to break up organized terrorism. It passed a drastic anti-terrorist decree, forced the illegal Irgun into the regular Israeli army and clapped 187 members of the Stern gang, which boasted of killing Bernadotte, into the Jaffa jail. Last week it was quite apparent that the Israeli government's bark was no match for the Stern gang's bite...
...last week, Congress passed a new law defining libel as "anything which offends the dignity of any public official, whether the article refers directly to the person, or by allusion to him or the governmental organization of which he forms a part." Penalties run up to three years in jail. A neat clause prohibits the introduction of evidence to prove the offender's statements. Henceforth, Perón and La Señora could expect a good press...
Outraged by comics that piously headline their pages "Obey the Law" while dripping with murder by meat cleavers, quicklime, axes and buzz saws, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took drastic action. It passed an ordinance providing a $500 fine or a six-month jail term for selling crime comics to children under 18. The law will cover only the rural areas of the county, but the legislature will be asked to make the ban statewide...
...wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol of Peter and Paul and all the apostles and martyrs ... He also reincarnates the symbol of the fathers and mothers of America-whose thoughts, powers...