Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee appeared Singer Paul Robeson, a long time fellow traveler, to denounce the bill. He refused to tell whether or not he is a Communist. Declared Robeson: "Nineteen men are about to go to jail for refusing to answer that question. I am prepared to join them." Nobody asked him to go to jail. The subcommittee listened to a few other witnesses, decided to end the hearings. They had already run a day longer than scheduled...
Throughout the occupation, M. Sacha Guitry, garrulous, versatile luminary of the French stage, accepted so many Nazi cheers that his countrymen threw him in jail after the liberation. The French courts cleared him of the charge of collaboration. But as Guitry found out in Lyon last week, some people of the Resistance...
Last week Screen Writers Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, who had been found guilty of contempt by District of Columbia juries, were each sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $1,000. The other eight of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"-who had also refused to answer when asked whether or not they were Communists-waived jury trials. They agreed to rest their fate on the outcome of appeals to higher courts by Trumbo and Lawson...
...While still in jail, Sinclair was sentenced to six additional months for contempt of court for hav ing jurors shadowed...
Flight Canceled. In Colorado Springs, Colo., farsighted police removed from a window ledge of the jail the hacksaw blades which farsighted juvenile delinquents had stashed there, before they were arrested...