Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily brought to trial, convicted of "anarchy." He has taken an appeal...
Unfortunately, Grant Mitchell, the clever detective, is not allowed to jail the latest beauty in "One Exciting Adventure." This time it is Binnie Barnes and she is addicted to stealing jewelry solely for pleasure. Nevertheless she is quite attractive and next time Mr. Mitchell may really catch...
...iron Nazi secrecy clamped down, the Sosnowski case became a lurid legend, strictly censored in the German Press, totally baffling to correspondents until they were able to tell the U. S. Embassy that languishing in jail and possibly about to be beheaded for "treason" was an inoffensive young U. S. music student, Miss Isobel Lillian Steele. Diplomatic pressure forced Germany to disgorge Miss Steele (TIME, Jan. 7), even the secret police finally admitting that she was guilty of nothing. But the music student had been innocently acquainted with Baroness von Berg, proceeded to spill all sorts of Sosnowski facts...
...Paris court found Charles A. L. Audry, nephew of France's onetime Premier Gaston Doumergue, guilty of swindling, gave him a suspended sentence of 26 months in jail. For the same deal onetime Minister of Commerce Louis Serre paid a fine of $250 and two accomplices were jailed. Swindlers Audry, Serre & friends sold $1,980,000 worth of stock which had been entrusted to them, fooled the owners by paying false dividends...
...grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until...