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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sharp '25, the social service committee secured a number of men to help at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. in leading boys' clubs and conducting classes for men wishing to take the naturalization examinations. This along with teaching elementary subjects to prisoners at the East Cambridge jail comprised the more important phase of the work. The social service committee has done well during the two years of its existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progress All Along the Line Reported As P.B.H. Officers Render Account | 4/8/1924 | See Source »

...Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment contains ten counts for refusal to answer ten questions. If found guilty in the course of a year or so, Mr. Sinclair will be liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 or 30 days to a year in jail, or both. If each refusal to testify is considered as a separate offense he would be liable to ten times the penalty. ¶ The new member of the Committee, Senator Spencer, Republican of Missouri, proved a Tartar, carrying the war of words into the Democratic camp and clashing with Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Investigations | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

Sometimes the question is asked "How can bucketing be prevented?" One way which will not stop it is light jail sentences for the guilty parties. Any rascal will willingly undergo imprisonment for a few years, with several millions "salted away" somewhere to enjoy after the short ordeal is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Punished? | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...Edward Aloysius Rumely went to jail last week for something he didn't do seven years ago. But who is Edward Aloysius Rumely? And what didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumely | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...Edward Aloysius Rumely-who had been a friend of Roosevelt, and of Henry Ford-M.D., educator, farm machinery manufacturer, went to jail for what he failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rumely | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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