Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...says, that John Gibson, the father, with a wrathful posse of 300 hillmen scoured the woods, caught the 22-year-old Negro, named E. K. Harris, accused of the rape, and took him to the Shelbyville Jail, and a hillbilly mob demanded Harris be turned over to them. These statements are untrue. . . . There was no hillbilly mob. Mr. Gibson is not a hillbilly...
...start an ice plant. The Code Authority issued an order that he could not start an ice plant. One of the parties issuing the order was a man who had an ice plant in the same town. If the man violates this order he is sent to jail. This order violates a half-dozen provisions of the Constitution...
...learning the science of politics under that master politician, Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania. Back in Washington after the War, this A. E. F. major joined the Legion's lobby. That lobby was then headed by 1 ) Colonel Luke Lea who presently returned to Tennessee and ultimately went to jail in North Carolina, and 2 ) Major Taylor's law partner, Thomas Miller, who subsequently became Alien Property Custodian and served a term in the Atlanta Penitentiary for conspiring to defraud the U. S. Government. Major Taylor took up where they left off. He fumigated the lobby...
...Waram) because the latter has been selling narcotics. Thereupon Dr. Pryor runs to the Medical Council with the tale that Dr. Norton has been unprofessionally intimate with his wife (Phoebe Foster). Since Dr. Norton loses his right to practice, Mrs. Pryor is disgraced and her husband subsequently sent to jail, the chief characters of this piece appear to be living not dangerously but miserably...
Same day Stenographer Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...