Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great many Georgians were intensely displeased by this tawdry barbarism. Governor Melvin Thompson took steps to counteract it. He ordered two prisoners removed from Reidsville's safe Tatnall State Prison and sent back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...
There is also the more profitable method of plugging the return slot. Jingling a pocketful of coins, the nickel-grabbing Yardling added that there was, however, the danger of a jail sentence if you get caught. Risking the machine was scornfully described as a "cheap trick...
Prison Verses. In 1928, Blanco started the anti-Gomez weekly El Impartial, soon made it the most influential paper in Caracas. In due time a copy fell into Tyrant Gómez's hands and Editor Blanco went to jail, spent four years in grillos (leg irons). "I witnessed tortures that were incredible," he said. "I saw them sentence one man to 1,000 lashings and saw him die after...
Both in & out of jail, Blanco has endeared himself to his people with his songs and coplas-short four-line verses on popular themes. A Caraqueño recalls: "Late one night about five years ago, we were sitting in a beer garden, drinking and listening to an urchin singing. A man wandered in from the street and sat down with us. For the urchin's song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about...
...confidence is the gravest ethical omission of which a newspaperman can stand accused." In some states the law would have protected them from such questioning. New York has no such law. So last week Clarke and Leonard were fined $100 each for contempt of court and clapped into jail to serve ten days. (They straightway began writing a series on prison life...