Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade they learned at the reformatory. "For of course," Dr. Glueck said, "many of these young men became criminals for lack of knowing anything else to do. On the other hand we find great numbers of the men, at the end of the five-year period back in jail somewhere or in an insane...
...Insull had flatly refused to tell to whom he gave $40,000 of his quarter million, and that was why Senator Reed cited him for contempt. The penalty for this offense varies from one month to one year in jail, plus a fine. But Mr. Insull is in no immediate danger of entering a cell. First the Senate must find him guilty of contempt; then he can still carry his case to the Supreme Court...
...Sherman Anti-Trust Law sank its teeth into 20 individuals and 23 pottery corporations last week, when the U. S. Supreme Court decided that they were illegally restraining trade. Most of the individuals will be sent to jail. The Trenton (N. J.) Potteries Co., and the other members of an association, having factories in nine states, manufactured and distributed 82% of the vitreous bathroom fixtures produced...
...forms knocked unconscious by fists, feet and drinks at 20? each. Next day the police arraigned 133 Bowery derelicts, the largest number of culprits that ever appeared in the Tombs court on a single complaint. What could the judge do with them? All were sobered: They would crowd the jail. The workhouse would take them only if they were to stay 10 days. The judge had lights arranged and examined 133 rough necks, 266 trouser pockets. Those with dirty necks and no money for a bath, he sent to the workhouse. Others he freed. Historians recalled that not 100 years...
...were President, I'd call out the Army and Navy, yes, sir! and I'd close the dance halls, the sinks of iniquity, and I'd enforce Prohibition and all the other laws. If I were President, my first official act would be to jail Nicholas Murray Butler. Murray is, of course, just one of those who are preaching sedition with their talk of repealing the 18th Amendment. If I were President, I'd build a brand new Federal penitentiary,* if necessary, to contain all those traitors, and I'd build one large wing just...