Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports every three months of his employers' names, all his salaries and fees, all his expenses of $10 or more, the names of all newspapers and periodicals "in which he had caused to be published any articles or editorials." Penalty for disobedience: $1,000 fine, a year in jail, or both...
...were amiably chatting one afternoon last week in the Marion County Jail in Indianapolis. One was a mild-mannered, bespectacled Kentucky feudist named George W. Barrett, first man sentenced to death under the new Federal law which makes the killing of a U. S. officer a mandatory capital offense by hanging. The other was jovial, mastiff-jowled Phil Hanna, an Illinois farmer...
Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo had his chance to get even, with Judge Holmes. His nomination to be United States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit, was up for Senate confirmation...
Said Republican Representative Louis Ludlow of Indiana: "If accepting a free meal is a crime, how many of us would be here today, instead of in jail...
...hating the huge utilities company, he had demanded that P. S. C. pay $150,000 for the privilege of stringing its wires over one corner of his tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs had killed his wife Sophie. Now four...