Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bailey," famed London bar of justice, the first skirmish in "Britannia's war on the Reds" (TIME, Oct. 26, Nov. 2) ended last week when twelve prominent Communists were sentenced to jail by Mr. Justice Swift, after a jury had taken but 20 minutes to find them guilty of conspiracy on three counts: 1) uttering and publishing seditious libels; 2) violating the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797; 3) seducing the armed forces of the Empire from their duty...
...arrested immediately. The charge was vague, but obviously the thing to do with a man who said he was Christ was to take him in custody. It was indicated by every precedent. To the policemen who apprehended him, the judge before whom he was arraigned, the thieves in the jail where he was lodged, Vespaciano admitted, indeed flagrantly proclaimed that he was the Christ, returned to earth as he had promised. Clearly, then, he was guilty of whatever it was that he was guilty of. Last week he went to prison...
Andrew Volstead declared that, although it is not generally known, there is a penalty of 90 days in jail for buying illicit liquor, and two years for a second offense...
...fall with him. Amid the antiFascist revolution which would spring up, anything might happen. Even as these thoughts coursed through the mind of onetime Socialist Deputy Tito Zaniboni, something happened with a vengeance. Fascist police burst in his door, collared him, took his rifle away, trundled him off to jail...
...because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money to carry on her legal battle. Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal. Now she must go to jail unless the Governor pardons her. But he cannot do so unless she signs an appeal for pardon, and she has announced that she will not do so, since it would imply a confession of guilt-which she will not admit...