Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
...willingly renounced his worldly goods and ways, donned a Volunteer uniform, took to sermonizing on Indianapolis street corners with his wife as his singing partner. From Indianapolis the Ulreys marched on Louisville, where they remained for five years, became Volunteer ''majors," broadcasting occasionally from the Louisville County Jail. Lately a small Manhattan radio station (WLTH) has been sending out their Bowery mission programs. Result was that an advertising scout heard Mrs. Ulrey sing The Penitent's Plea and Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, was vastly impressed with the quality of her voice...
...survive it must undergo change. Religious bodies must work together in co-operative action.-Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Christian of Japan. If the Church involves itself with any dogmatic statements about social security, it will not only prove a failure but the Church will jail too, and lose its entity.- Dean Wallace Brett Donham of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. A study of recently printed salaries almost makes one a Communist or a Socialist.-Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Manhattan...
...game is played something like parcheesi, tokens being moved around a spaced board by throwing dice. Spaces are marked off into streets, water works, jail, etc. When a player lands on an unoccupied street he may buy it with scrip money, thereafter levy rent upon any other player who lands on it. If he acquires two or three adjoining streets, he may start a development, building houses and hotels, which enable him to charge higher & higher rents. Since each player starts with the same amount of scrip, it is necessary to have a nice sense of liquidity, investing enough...
...well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...