Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guarantee that employers will not be prosecuted if they follow the Administrator's rulings and interpretations, pending court decisions on moot points. Employers now take Elmer Andrews' advice at their risk, chancing heavy damages, fines up to $10,000, even six months in jail if the courts disagree with the Administrator on what the law means...
...natural fortress of boulders and timber, near Clark's Fork Canyon 30 miles northwest of Cody, Wyo., Earl Durand, 26, the huge, hairy "true woodsman" who broke jail in Cody last fortnight and shot down two pursuing peace officers (TIME, March 27), lay waiting and watching one day last week. They had sentenced him to six months in jail for shooting a bull elk out of season, threatened him with ten years more for killing a beef cow. Now they wanted him for double murder. A posse of peace officers under Sheriff Frank Blackburn was down below, coming...
Said the killer's father, respected Rancher Walter W. Durand of Powell, Wyo.: "The boy seems to have gone insane and started killing men he has known throughout his lifetime. The great outdoors was my son's god. I think when he was sent to jail he went nearly crazy thinking about having to give up his outdoor life. . . . God help...
...election district captain. Twice he was arrested for street fighting, once for assaulting a girl whom he took to a hotel and afterwards refused to marry-wild oats for a young man on the upper west side. Tammany took care of its own; he wasn't sent to jail...
...Young Business Men's Club advertised for a "large alley cat, exceptionally powerful, and able to cope with giant sewer rats." Questioned by the Humane Society, which asked him if he was planning to put on a cat-rat fight, Mr. Donohoe explained: "It's for the jail." A cat named Sergeant...