Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Debs, acknowledged leader of the Socialist Party, and four times candidate for the Presidency, has again entered the political arena. In Chicago he campaigned for William A. Cunnea, labor lawyer, who is running for mayor on the Socialist ticket. Debs, his health recovered after his recent term in jail for violation of the Espionage Act, is said to possess his old time fire and enthusiasm, speaking every day at labor and radical rallies...
With one favorite exception, the statutes which are painfully familiar to the greatest number of men are the traffic regulations. Last spring, when the son of a well-known automobile manufacturer was sentenced to five days in jail for fast driving, the country rang with excitement. Orange County, California, sprang into prominence by giving "a day on the rock pile" to all second offenders. Even the famous Ralph De Palma got "ten days", for shooting away from a policemen whose motorcycle was "doing...
Sacco is on hunger strike now as a protest against being kept in jail so long without sentence after his conviction of a crime of which he con- tends he is innocent. Counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti have made five motions for new trials, based on new evidence, discrediting of former testimony, and exceptions taken during the first trial. All of these motions are scheduled to be heard within a week...
...plays without a "happy ending." There was, for example, A Square Peg. The maltreated husband therein killed himself just before taking his final curtain call, but that was not the trag-edy of the piece. The tragic climax came when he was denied the grateful haven of a jail sentence. It was not an inspiring catastrophe. One hardly felt toward Mr. Huckins as toward a Lucifer, shouting defiance from the overheated shade of the Inferno...
...wealth of Germany before the war. The ability to pay the reparations is necessarily concomitant with military strength. This France does not want Germany to regain. The position of Germany is simply this: France has said to them: 'You must pay a fine of $10,000 or go to jail'. But they only have $1000, and it would be useless to pay that, for lacking $9000, they will go to jail anyway...