Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demands the Stouts refused. After a shutdown, they reopened their mill, offered to rehire all onetime employes individually. The Labor Board's complaint cited the three Stouts for refusing to bow to the unionized majority in the mill, threatened them with a $5,000 fine, a year in jail, or both, for violations of the Labor...
...sentence passed. In addition to the loss of one eye. shot out by his brother-in-law. Barrett was crippled in the knees by a volley of slugs fired by the Government agents in the West College Corner affray. Ordering the prisoner to be hanged at the Marion County Jail next March, U. S. District Judge Robert C. Baltzell concluded: "May I add personally that I hope and pray that God will be merciful unto...
...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
...Besson's troubles with the police started in 1932, when a lawyer brought suit for an unpaid bill of $200. Losing his case, Deputy Besson defiantly refused to pay, was sentenced to three months in jail. The job was to catch him. France allows her citizens a total of 31 days in jail before they can be disbarred from public office. At various times, M. Besson had served nearly three weeks behind bars for passing bad checks and attacking uniformed flunkies. Another ten days would ruin his political career...
OGPU Agents began last week a grand roundup and jailing of Moscow housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among...