Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political prisoners'" dinner is to be held in the House of Commons. All M. P.'s invited must have been sent to jail for political crimes-two deportations count for one imprisonment. All the invites are Laborites...
...laws just released from Leavenworth by a presidential pardon have much in common. The Ghazi, as all devotees of Kipling know, expected to achieve Paradise by dying at the hands of his enemies, and the war prisoner doubtless hoped for the halo of the earthly martyr by going to jail...
...Joint Amnesty Committee had been agitating for their release for many months. President Harding, a few weeks before his death, liberated several of these prisoners, some of them under conditions of good behavior, deportation, etc. Several of these "liberated" prisoners are still in jail because they refused freedom except with unconditional pardon. In the appointment of the new investigating board a Christmas amnesty is foreseen...
...Attorney General Daugherty was consulted. In accordance with Mr. Daugherty's recommendation the President remitted the sentence, without condoning the Comptroller's "contempt." Said Mr. Daugherty of the Comptroller: "It is conceivable that he will be more disappointed and punished by not being required to go to jail...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, slacker: "In Berlin I filed a damage suit for $150,000 against Corliss Hooven Griffis, an American Army officer now in jail at Mossbach in connection with an attempt to kidnap me last Summer (TIME...