Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone in Washington with a memory for faces was startled. Whisperings were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...
With only a small delay Statesman Stimson despatched instructions to the U. S. Embassy at Havana to inquire into Mr. Barlow's arrest, to discover if "his surroundings were bearable." Before this order could reach Havana, Mr. Barlow was out of jail...
...County Sheriff Oscar Adkins and his deputies rushed the strikers. Stones flew. Pates were cracked. Noses bled. Sheriff Adkins swore out 148 warrants for "riot, insurrection and rebellion against the constituted authority of the State of North Carolina." After 74 strikers and their leaders had been arrested, the county jail was filled. More troopers came to town. Minor dynamitings occurred in the mills. A Labor Day parade was banned by the county commissioners and the mill owners moved to evict 230 families of strikers from company homes...
...official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes of the line (TIME, July...
Producers Outlets. Prairie Oil & Gas Co., once part of the extinct Standard Oil, a large producer (but not a retailer), of oil in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming was last week reported about to merge with Sinclair, thereby acquiring a retailing agency. From jail, Chairman Sinclair admitted "through a friend" that engineers were surveying the properties of both companies, but added happily, "I have no intention of retiring from the oil business...