Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harm's Way. In Fayetteville, N.C., Elmer Haywood rushed into the city jail, locked himself in a cell, explained that he wanted to avoid being arrested for drunkenness...
Like his father before him, George Berham Parr, 47, is the political boss of oil-rich Duval County, in the southernmost appendix of Texas. He is also a banker, beer baron, oil promoter and lawyer. He went to jail for Federal income-tax evasion in 1936. After he got out, one year later, he began again to stretch his grip beyond his small core of about 5,000 Mexican-American voters in Duval to take in the Democratic machines of several neighboring counties...
...arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
...described Bucharest as a "city with the air of a pawnshop." The only way the Rumanian middle class can keep alive is by slowly selling its possessions. The few men who still run their businesses actually hope for nationalization. New laws covering "economic sabotage" may land a businessman in jail for carrying out any simple deal. As one Rumanian businessman put it: "We walk around with 25 years' hard labor in our pockets...
...Pauker, personally incorruptible, started sweeping the day she became Foreign Minister. For two days, her ministry was surrounded by troops while the housecleaning was in progress; she even purged three elevator men. In recent weeks, Communist big shots have toppled into jail like so many drunks on Saturday night; Ana has had to transform two theaters into prisons. Among those arrested: beautiful Florica Bagdasar, Minister of Public Health; General Michael Lascar of Pauker's own Tudor Vladimirescu division; General Constantin Ionescu, chief of the General Staff; Constantin Doncea, deputy mayor of Bucharest, colonel in the Red army, member...