Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying off the streets to avoid the rest. More nuisance than menace, however, the veterans were so broken-spirited that Kingstree's two-man police force could handle any number of them with the greatest of ease...
...find out from the income tax returns in his bureau the exact size and distribution of the Ford Fortune. But if he had revealed it publicly before the Senate Finance Committee last week, he would have violated the Federal secrecy-of-tax-returns law, could have been clapped into jail for one year and fined $1,000. Running no such risk he took his facts & figures from the annual reports filed by Ford Motor Co. with the Massachusetts Commissioner of Corporations, estimated the company to be worth $600,000,000, 41½% owned by Son Edsel...
...Equal Rights Bill will not become effective until Sept. 1. Last week, however, Pennsylvanians were beginning to realize how hard it would be to evade it. Discrimination of any kind will be a crime, punishable by a fine up to $500. a jail sentence up to 60 days. Two Negro women marched into the William Penn Hotel Beauty Salon, swankest in Pittsburgh, asked for a "powder test." usually given free. A white beautician told them it would cost $5 apiece. They showed their money. She said they would have to have an appointment. They asked for one. She finally said...
Peoria and the Press frowned on defense attempts to show that Thompson was insane. His younger brother happened last week to be in jail on a charge of taking "indecent liberties" with a small boy. Briskly Gerald Thompson was found guilty of murder, sentenced to the electric chair...
...Tribune's crusading Reporter Shannon Cormack happened to let an error of fact into a story he wrote last February about Circuit Judge Jefferson B. Browne, who was trying a Florida State Senator on gambling charges. Cited for contempt, fined $50 and sentenced to one day in jail, Newshawk Cormack appealed. Last week, all appeals having failed, Cormack served his one-day sentence...