Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard luck story, told too glibly to suspicious undergraduates, brought hard luck--in the form of a night in jail--to a middle aged man last night. He was held on charges of trespassing and drunkenness by Cambridge police after taking $10 and a railroad ticket to New York from several Dunster House residents...
...special prosecutor, he made a record of 72 convictions out of 73 indictments; in his last year as D.A., 96.5% were convicted or pleaded guilty. His zeal for convictions led to one blunder. In 1938, his office got one Bertram Campbell convicted of forgery. Campbell spent three years in jail, was later found to be innocent. As governor, Dewey signed a bill giving Campbell the right to sue the state for damages. Campbell collected $115,000, died three months later...
...gathered. Markos joined the Tobacco Workers' Union and the Communist Youth Organization. Nicolas Zacha-riades had just formally transformed the Socialist-Labor Party into the KKE (Kommounistikon Komma Ellados-Hellenic Communist Party) and brought it into the Third International. From then on Markos' life was the into-jail, out-ofjail of Balkan revolutionaries. Called up for army service, he went into the cavalry. "I managed to acquire good military knowledge," he says. He also acquired a dishonorable discharge as a Communist...
...crime did not pay for the Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...
...toting King as a Gargantua being stuffed with gold by dutiful midgets. Gargantua was displeased, but Daumier got off with a suspended sentence. In 1832 he tried his hand at a cartoon in which the King's ministers appeared as washerwomen. That one cost him six months in jail...