Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truly contemptible cheat, trapped by his own weakness, trying to bully his conscience out of existence, taking refuge from his acts in the fond belief that he acted "for his family." But his acquaintances give him credit only for being more "clever" than his partner who went to jail, and his own son deserts him as soon as he is convinced of his father's guilt. His wife Kate, played by Mady Christians, seeks refuge from her husband's acts in the firm conviction that Larry is still alive, until his letter convinces her that she has no hope...
...Connors is an ex-jailbird. An ex-hot check passer and panhandler, he now & then augmented his income by filching nickels from telephone coinboxes. He would stuff toilet paper into the return slot, wait a couple of hours, then unplug the jackpot. He has spent over a year in jail...
...ruddy, amiable lawyer (once suspended) named Charles H. McGlue, who had been a Curley campaign manager, state Democratic chairman and head of the state Ballot Law Commission, which irons out ballot disputes. In 1939, McGlue had been convicted of federal income-tax evasion, spent five months in jail. Curley decided that McGlue was just the man to be assistant chief of the city's licensing division (at a modest...
...Argentina, President Juan Domingo Perón's truce with the Communists seemed to be about over. Police raided the fellow-traveling Union of Argentine Women, hauled 92 off to jail. Thirty-one Greek sailors were deported for spreading the party line among Buenos Aires' Greek colony...
...Died? Author Jones tells the long story in chronicled detail: the disappearances (till bodies turned up later); the killings in "justified self-defense"; the kidnaping and executions. One day in 1882 the Hatfields intercepted seven peace officers who were taking some of Old Randolph McCoy's sons to jail for the knifing of a Hatfield. The youngest McCoy began to cry. Said Wall Hatfield gruffly, "I'm not going to hurt you." But next day the wounded Hatfield died. His kinsmen turned on the hostages. The bodies of Tolbert, Phamer and young Randolph McCoy were found tied...