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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought before Judge James on charges of disturbing the peace and speaking without permit, but two of them, on a plea of clemency from President Conant were acquitted. The others, who are now up for their second hearing, were told by Judge James that he was sorry to impose jail sentences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN HANFY RIOTERS' CASES RETRIED TODAY | 11/14/1934 | See Source »

...Hitler." Last week the Mayor brought suit for slander. Ruled the judge: "To call an official 'a Hitler' is an objectionable expression, reflecting on the authority of the person attacked. Councilman Klimes, I sentence you to pay a fine of 30 crowns [$1.25] or to serve 24 hours in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Objectionable Expression | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion to war use. The third decree law permits the Government to clap into jail for five years any Pole who supplies information to a foreign government which could be used against Poland in case of war. Since the decree is so drawn that it can be made to cover even ordinary economic news printed in a daily paper, Polish publishers were incensed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: My Friends. . . . | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...belongs, in Russia, and should cause her to be classed with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich as an importation who deserves all the attention she can get. She speaks better English than she did in Nona, looks a little thinner, acts as well. Good shot: Katusha drinking vodka in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...Louis Kid he wears bandages on his hands, butts his way through brawls with his head. In other respects, the picture is standard Cagney entertainment, a rapid, realistic fantasy about a truck-driver who wants a quiet weekend in the country. Best shot: Cagney being welcomed into a village jail by a warden who loves company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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