Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Younger Generation. In Cambridge, Mass., jail officials asked a group of boisterous little boys to move on away from that street corner; they were keeping the prisoners awake nights...
...English governess. Until her marriage at 21, she was called "Nan," acquired a pronounced English accent, ate typical English food like mutton, boiled cabbage and pudding; Indian food was served only on Sundays. But what really turned her against Britain was not mutton and boiled cabbage but the recurring jail sentences imposed on her late husband, Lawyer Ranjit Pandit, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, and herself, for political activity. From 1931 to 1943 she was thrice jailed, for a total of two years and nine months...
...submission. Said Peter Postnikoff: "I refuse to hit any man. But maybe I'll forget my teachings." Last week, orthodox Doukhobors finally asked for action. Extra constables hustled to the fertile Kootenay Valley. The bag by week's end: 14 Sons of Freedom arrested, seven sent to jail for terms ranging from six months to a year...
...statement that touched off the season's cascade of antitrust suits, Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark had called for jail sentences for those who "conspire to maintain or increase present prices." Ever since, the antitrust division's 160 lawyers have been working overtime filing charges against leaders of the rubber, brake-lining, color film and oil industries (TIME, Sept. 1). All were accused of conspiracy to fix prices...
...none of its fervor but some of its bounce. It brought action against the National Association of Real Estate Boards and its local Washington chapter, charged them with fixing brokerage fees and thereby contributing to the high cost of houses. But the charge did not carry any threat of jail sentences...