Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fayetteville, Pa., Fisherman David Carbaugh was fined exactly $533.50 for exceeding the limit on trout, in default of payment got exactly 533½ days in jail...
...officer. Taylor's lawyers argued that it violated the Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt and had it been left to me, I never would have tried the case...
Broken Noses. By & large, the cramped U.S. population had become as resigned as Chinese coolies in a Shanghai doss house. Yet here & there a savage temper showed through. In New York, a landlord was sent to jail for breaking a woman tenant's nose after she complained to the rent-control board that he was overcharging her (her rent: $40 a month for one room...
Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord...
Long Arm. In Lingen, Germany, police finally found the headquarters of a robbery ring: the local jail, whose wardens had sent teams of criminals out looting every night and divvied the swag with them every morning...