Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheriff later apprehended two Negroes suspected of causing the double death. They were conveyed to jail in the adjoining town of Mound City. Slowly a grumbling mob assembled. A storm-cloud of violence hovered over the scene. Then a man came forward from the crowd. He pleaded with them not to resort to violence. He prayed with them. There was no lynching that...
...know some excellent hikes the club might take out towards Medford and Malden. I learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
...President Coolidge let it be known that he had been misinformed by the Department of Justice (Daugherty regime) at the time when he gave executive clemency to a Chicago saloon keeper sentenced to a year in jail and $1,000 fine in connection with an alleged infraction of the prohibition laws. The President had been given to understand that the fine had been paid although the sentence had not been served. The President's statement was given out following the action of a Chicago judge who ruled that the man was sentenced for contempt and that, therefore, the President...
...different cure, and this has been the occasion of rather heated dispute between them. Mr. Banton declares that the only solution to the problem is to license stockbrokers. The Stock Exchange, on its part, maintains that the only way to stop bucketing is to put bucketshop keepers in jail and keep them there, and that what is needed is enforcement of old laws rather than enactment of new ones...
...only have few of the bucket-shop cases of two years ago resulted in prison sentences, but many of the cases have not yet even come up for trial. In cases where convictions have been secured, usually the jail sentences have run less than three years...