Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make it unlawful to work or conspire toward the establishment in the U.S. of a foreign-controlled, totalitarian government, i.e., the Soviet. (Maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and ten years in jail; loss of citizenship...
Contempt of Congress is a criminal offense, and is usually punished as such. In 1929 Oilman Harry F. Sinclair was sent to jail for three months* for refusing to answer a Congressional Committee's questions on his company's dealings. In 1935 William P. MacCracken Jr., secretary of the American Bar Association and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce, was put behind bars for the destruction of subpoenaed papers...
...Criminal Mind. In Lincoln, Neb., Arlene Gibson went to jail after making the mistake of wearing stolen jewelry to a policeman's ball...
...annoyed government is cracking down. From Movie Star Jorge Negrete (who had bought it innocently enough), officials took a brand-new Cadillac, and announced that owners of other smuggled cars faced the same treatment plus a six-year jail term and a $1,000 fine. Last week, motorists driving into Mexico were asked to surrender car-ownership certificates at the border. Federal inspectors also moved in on bribe-taking customs men who connived in letting big shipments through, arrested five customs officers...
...client? Hull refused to name him. So did Hull's partner, Marvin C. Harrison, until SEC hauled them up before a federal judge in Detroit. He ordered them to answer or risk jail for contempt of court. Unhappy Lawyer Harrison then named the mysterious client: it was Cyrus Eaton...