Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...
...Deeply sympathized with Godfearing, humdrum Conservative Hamer Russell M. P. who fainted dead away last week when his sprightly son John received a five-year jail sentence for "attempted murder"; in abetting the attempted suicide of an expectant mother and abetting on two other occasions illegal operations. Said Expectant-Mother Carol Leadbeater: "I still love John and want to marry him. He did not throw me into the River Trent! No such thing...
...later police rushed in and arrested M. Verviers. "You are charged with endangering the national credit," he was told. "Witnesses are ready to testify that you said, 'The Government has devalued the belga 25%.' For such a malicious falsehood you can be punished with three months in jail...
...days. Hopping by plane about Southern Germany he had been haranguing his people, listening to their hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...
Stoically Editor Jee contemplated the possibility of serving a year in jail instead of receiving his master's degree in Political Science at New York University in June...