Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas M. Davis and Harry Davis, brothers and real estate brokers, had not spoken to each other for six years. Nor did they speak last week in the Atlantic City (N. J.) county jail, where they occupied adjoining cells. Thomas had voted when he was not a U. S. citizen; Harry had neglected to pay his wife's alimony...
...devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates went all the way with him. Most of his contemporaries in fact, detested him. "The spirit that...
...Well, it fell upon me to decide whether or not he would be prosecuted. We did put him in jail, as you know, and he made no effort to escape. That ended him with his worshipers; and, after his release, a man took his place who was really a far more dangerous person than Gandhi himself...
...Finally he got to be too dangerous. I prosecuted him also and put him in jail for six months for sedition...
...found no worth in his defense, led by Negro E. Lionel Cross, that his attack was upon "the old Jewish God" and that there is "no more blasphemy in talking against this God than there is against Jupiter or Baal." The judge sentenced him to 60 days in jail...