Word: jails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
County highway patrols last week scoured the countryside around Chicago looking for a wanted man. They found him finally upon the golf course of Olympia Fields Country Club and led him, not to jail, but to a telephone. The wanted man was Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The person who wanted him, at the other end of the telephone line, was General Hugh S. Johnson. The reason the Judge was wanted: the General had just settled Chicago's Stock Yards strike (TIME...
Less fortunate last week were other businessmen who did not have such potent Senators to fight for them. In New York an automobile dealer who sold a Ford for $50 below list price was fined $500. When he refused to pay, he was sentenced to jail for three months under a State law to supplement NRA regulations. Under another State law a grocer who sold bottles of milk at 3¢ below the list price was also convicted, made liable to a $200 fine, six months in jail or both...
...Friday the judge said: "My duty as a sworn official is to uphold the authority of this court." Again, six hours in jail for the newshawks...
...Saturday the courtroom was jammed. The judge asked: "Do you still refuse to answer?" Newsmen Durham & Carty got back to jail just in time for supper (a slab of sausage, three slices of bread, a biscuit soaked in molasses...
...Great Falls, Mont., Alex Zwanetzck, sentenced to 30 days in jail, told the judge: "I want 90 days or nothing. My girl friend is doing 90 days in jail now. We're going to be married when she gets out. I haven't anything else to do and I want to stay in jail until her time's up." Alex got 90 days...