Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their substandard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount in damages. And he may have to pay a fine up to $10,000, spend up to six months in jail...
...only issue for Governor Earle and Charles Alvin Jones is 'Jones or jail...
Functioning as a kind of hobo ex machina, Bob Burns arrives by freight train in a town resembling Emporia, Kans., takes up residence in the county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed...
...protracted investigation of Brooklyn's fur racket, he grew mightily suspicious, started an investigation of his own. Last fortnight the two investigations clashed over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts...
According to Leon Trotsky, whose faithful secretary Andrés Nin was in Russia during the Revolution, there is little if any doubt that Mr. Nin was taken from a jail in Madrid last year by Communists of the Stalin persuasion and murdered. With this view many Socialists, including Norman Thomas, agree-while deprecating the further Trotskyist charge that the Government connived at the assassination. In court last week the Government prosecutor took the position that Señora Nin is the wife of a traitor who escaped from jail, fled abroad and has been in hiding for the past...