Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, only Senator Clark made any noticeable effort to stir up scandal. Committee Counsel Raushenbush, far from being a bitter prosecutor like Ferdinand Pecora, was obviously making no effort to send his witnesses to jail, had no belief that the men before him were villains, aimed at no more than to show that war trade and war finance are a danger to peace. Chairman Nye, too, was content with building up a ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should...
Martin Mooney is a lean, hardboiled newshawk who likes dice and drink, prides himself on his intimacy with big-shot thugs. He says he first struck up his criminal acquaintanceship while serving 15 jail terms for nonpayment of alimony. Last week he was on his way back to jail, this time as martyr to an oldtime Press tradition...
...city's perennial vice investigations hopefully summoned him, asked for names & addresses. Reporter Mooney refused to reveal the sources of his information. When he balked at answering the same questions asked by a General Sessions judge, he was sentenced to pay a $250 fine, serve 30 days in jail. The American quickly got him out of jail, carried his case up to New York State's highest court...
Gradually the mutiny, never unanimous, fell apart. "President" Richard Parker of the mutineers and 29 other ringleaders were hanged at the yardarm, nine were flogged, 29 sent to jail. Britannia and Britannia's cat continued to rule the waves...
...manufacturing-tenants who now occupy nearly half of the Mart's 3,100,000 square feet of floor space. Trim co-eds from the University of Chicago and Northwestern guided them from elevators to exhibits. For beer, buyers visited The Kooler, a refreshment room designed to resemble a jail. They looked at 6,000 lines of merchandise, from collar buttons to calculating machines. Special attraction was the Hall of Science, devoted to house-furnishings, electrical and otherwise. In a pre-show message sent to 5,000 house-furnishing buyers, the Hall was described as FORTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET...