Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Procession Starts From Jail...
...first the Cambridge Police Force and then the Drum Corps, Senior class, Junior class, University Band, Sophomore class, Freshman class, hired band, Law School, Medical School, graduates and carriages, containing the football team and leaders of the Republican party at college. The procession marched from the Charles Street Jail, up Commonwealth Avenue, down as far as Dartmouth Street to Boylston, past the Brunswick Hotel, where Mr. Blaine reviewed it, to Columbus Avenue, through to the South End, and finally into the business section...
...18th Amendment, forbids the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors in "the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof." This includes the Philippines. The Volstead Act, which defines intoxicating liquors and under which alone can violators of the Amendment be persecuted and sent to jail, does not apply to the Philippines. It does not apply to the Philippines because they are not specifically included in the Act; and the law (the "organic law" or Constitution), given by Congress to the Philippines when they were acquired by the U. S., provided that no subsequent act of Congress...
...Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three books: The Chicago Strike of 1894, The Moral Sentiment of the People, Destruction or Regulation of Trusts...
Recently, 31 Italians (male) were captured on Long Island, were charged with entering the country illegally. They were taken to Ellis Island on a deportation order, but the Government changed its mind. Handcuffed together, they were taken to a jail in Brooklyn and held in $10,000 bail each. The usual bail is $500. They and the two men charged with smuggling them in are to be prosecuted under the Immigration Act and the Passport Act. These provide, in case of conviction, for an extreme penalty of 20 years in jail, $10,000 fine and deportation when the sentence...