Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are fifty-two political prisoners held in jail today serving sentences of from ten to twenty years society for an alleged expression of opinion," said Mr. James Manning, I. W. W. leader, who has recently been released after a five-year sentence in Leavenworth Priston, addressing the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon...
Speaking for over 45 minutes, Mr. Manning outlined his personal experiences in prison at Seattle, in the Cook County Jail at Chicago, and at Fort Leavenworth, and made a strong plea for the freedom of the men still in prison. In 1917 he said he was organizing the I. W. W. in the lumber camps of Washington, where the living and working conditions were so bad that the luber men joined the organization in great numbers. The work of the I. W. w. was so contrary to the industrial interests of the west that they concocted a list of about...
...Couse quently it is the undergraduate duty, whether at dances in New York. New Haven or Hartford, to remember the debt and responsibility to Yale and to act as a gentleman will, rationally and with discretion. For liberty without responsibility leads to license, and license in drinking leads to jail and to a less respected Yale. Yale News...
...community will be safe from him, and keep him there. He is sure of advantages enough in the technicalities of the law and in delays, negligences and mistakes. There is no danger that he will cease to have a full opportunity and all possible means of keeping out of jail. Give the community at least something like a fair chance. Protect the public safety a good deal more and its enemies a good deal less. --New York Times
...imitated the mannerisms of Billy Sunday, waving his arms and shouting. "Here I am: vote for Olea!" But most remarkable of all is the platform he promised his constituents he would support if he sticks to it, Youngstown will do away with street cars altogether; its police will jail every citizen who does not pay his taxes immediately; and will permit, or, rather, "officially protect" the practice of "spooning" in the city parks...