Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death but Jail was the reward of Desperado John Dillinger's favorite girl, Evelyn Frechette. In St. Paul last week she was convicted of harboring the fugitive, was sentenced to two years in jail. Also jailed was Dr. Clayton May who for three days treated Dillinger's wounds, failed to report to the police...
...very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week angling for this rich Rumanian prize. At week's end his London friends had the impression that the Rumanian contracts were safely in his pocket...
...about French official corruption as anyone. A bulbous, masculine woman of strong character, she and her divorced husband founded the tipster sheet. Gazette du Franc et des Nations, in 1925, and sold $4,000,000 worth of securities to poor Frenchmen, eight of whom committed suicide when she was jailed for swindling and bankruptcy. For 15 months she sat in her cell, without trial, out of public sight. Meanwhile, someone stole a bale of documents from the prosecuting attorney's office, later mailed back the rifled closet key. Finally, in 1930, Marthe went on a hunger strike...
...names that were once big in two big cities made news last week as the result of Federal proceedings against them. In Manhattan the lawyers of elderly Joseph Wright Harriman were doing their utmost before a judge and jury to keep their client from going to jail on a charge of misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other...
...barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...