Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bagdad the civil jail was destroyed, but the prisoners were saved. The embankment round the city is holding and there is no fear of its crumbling. King Feisal is said to be personally responsible for saving the palace and the cultivated land near it. His bodyguard, under his supervision and spurred on by encouraging strains from an Arab band, repaired damage to the embankment encircling the royal property...
Those farmers who want to send to jail all city lads whose watches are an hour fast...
...significance of this event, called the most important development in socialism since the Russian revolution, is that the fundamental issue will be debated under conditions where its advocates support a programme including neither arson nor bomb-throwing, and where those opposed will not demand jail sentences for Socialists at the mention of the word. The present opportunity is the first a government has had to discuss so vital a problem in the atmosphere of a budget debate, the first time that socialism has had as cool attention as a financial report...
...Warden of Allegheny County Jail, Penn, installed a radio outfit for the prisoners...
Rene La Montagne: "My three brothers and I are model prisoners in the Essex (N. J.) jail where we are serving sentences for being bootleggers de luxe. We have asked only one favor-that we be allowed to join the other prisoners in shoveling snow and dirt out of the prison yard...