Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leased it to a private operator), the freighter's C. I. O. crew got into trouble with U. S. authorities last year for staging a sit-down aboard ship at Montevideo, Uruguay. Fourteen were subsequently charged with mutiny, convicted in Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted the lesser pleas last week, said Assistant U. S. Attorney Vincent Quinn, because "the principle . . . that seamen cannot conduct a sit-down strike on an American vessel was fully established at Baltimore." C. I. O. Attorney William Standard denied that any such principle had been laid down...
...manslaughter after shooting her lover, Louis Gumas, six years ago. She had never made the cornuto sign behind her husband's back. She had not made love behind his back with her divorced husband Thomas Catanzaro; nor with Dr. Charles Stoerzer, sometime house physician of the Raymond Street Jail (her sometime residence); nor with "a tall, thin...
...shirted zealots who carried little bags of Rumanian soil tied around their necks, was under a ten-year sentence at hard labor for conspiring against his country with a "foreign Government"-i.e., Germany-and inciting to revolt. Fiery, handsome "Little Hitler"Codreanu might just as well have been in jail for murder, for he had a notorious reputation as a political assassin...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
...production of that aged melodrama, The Drunkard, four University of Oklahoma boys staggered down the aisle of an Oklahoma City church waving a whiskey bottle, threw a State W. C. T. U. convention into an uproar. Amid screaming and fainting women, police arrived and dragged the drunks off to jail. There, when.it transpired that the whiskey was coffee, the jag a joke, the four students were let off. Said one of them: ''It was the biggest act of my career, and before the most unsympathetic audience...