Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What a contrast to the stupid methods of Passaic and Clifton where reporters are assaulted, where strikers are sent to jail for thirty days for swearing, although the police wear no haloes, and where the chief of police should be arrested for assult and battery. There is an obvious lesson there for all peace officers who must deal with strikers...
...Shepton Mallet jail, Somerset, England, a hangman's noose tightened, last week, and snapped out the life of John Lincoln, a British soldier, who last Christmas Eve murdered a certain traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the execution be delayed for a few days until the condemned man's father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany...
...years earlier. (The circumstances that he was not tried as a spy and was not arrested when the forgery was committed, were cited by him as proving his innocence as a forger, and the truth of his revelations as a spy, part of which he composed in the Brooklyn jail.) ; 8) Served as chief publicity agent for the famed Kapp putsch, which tried to restore the throne of Germany to the Hohenzollerns; 9) Arrested by the Italian police charged with complicity in the murder of the millionaire Socialist Deputy Matteotti (TIME June 23, 1924, et seq.); Escaped to Ceylon where...
...post-game celebration results in the wrecking of the Club Prado in accordance with the best Mack Sennett traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters may not be lonesome, and a pardon by the district attorney--the bride's father, of course--lead to the fade...
...slaves of us! What has Fascismo done to our country? Anarchy, murder, riots and a perpetual state of internal war are kept up for the greater glory of Mussolini! Then, putting on the mask of a peacemaker, he causes the men who execute his orders to be lodged in jail...