Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco went on a month's hunger strike. . . . Mrs. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, wife of the U. S. Supreme Court Justice, turned over her Dedham home to Mrs. Sacco so that she could be near her husband and cook for him while he was in the Dedham (Mass.) jail. Last week in a Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad...
...freedom for them. Breadmakers and taxi-drivers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laborers in many another land went on protest strikes. Heavy guards were posted at the U. S. Department of State and at Judge Thayer's home. . . . And, meanwhile, the fish peddler and the shoemaker sat in jail, fumbling with martyrdom. They have two hopes: a technicality leading to the U. S. Supreme Court, a pardon by Governor Fuller...
...novice. Mr. Link grew indignant. So did Mr. Summers, petulant tutor. Mr. Link retorted sharply. Mr. Summers arose and shook Mr. Link by the neck in mock fury. Mr. Link collapsed, died two hours later of a ruptured blood vessel. Mr. Summers, pleading "a playful scuffle," was lodged in jail, alleged manslaughterer...
...Brunswick, N. J., one Preston Jenkins, Negro, jailed since February for stealing a $10 bicycle, pleaded guilty at his trial last week, was sentenced to one minute in jail. Mr. Jenkins spent his term packing his belongings...
...Jail (Jack Mulhall). Son (Jack Mulhall) clashes with Father over conduct of the milk business, is thereupon advised to start his own route outside the family circle. Speeding near Lost Angeles lodges him in jail where he meets most of the best people, confined for the same offense. Social opportunities thus afforded give rise to better milk and more of it, provided by Son in competition with a now alarmed as well as irate parent. Father swallows defeat. Son marries the heroine with the family blessing, the while a moderately amused audience guffaws at his clowning...