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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months in jail, or the fine, or both, for a second offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Floors & Ceilings | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...whole thing, all alone, to "get things" for his wife. But he had not murdered the child; that was accidental, he said. Skeegie "must have smothered" while he was quieting him with handkerchiefs. ¶Chief Hoover had Prisoner McCall spirited to the 19th floor of Miami's skyscraper jail to prevent his lynching by an angry Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: $5 Atrocity | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Walter was the only person aboard the Yukoner who wholeheartedly enjoyed his trip. When the crew got out of jail in Dawson (the piracy case was allowed to die because of international complications), all members immediately went on a drunk, spent their year's wages. Because of complications arising from the bankruptcy, Walter was not paid. He did not mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Having Wonderful Time | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

More than one-third of the nation's women, 36%, would rather see their sons go to jail than to war; among women under 30, this is the preference of 42%. While 88% feel that no overseas war is justified, 64% feel that war is justifiable on occasion, but by a quirk of feminine logic 87% regard invasion of the U. S. or its possessions as such an occasion. These opinions appeared this week in another nationwide survey of women conducted by the news-nosy Ladies' Home Journal. Other opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Women and War | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...four months it took to arrive at that conclusion the Government prosecution and the industry's defense (there were 57 defense attorneys) together spent a total of about $3,000,000. In addition, conviction carried a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine or a year in jail for each executive and a $5,000 fine for each company. With motions for a new trial still under consideration, sentence has not yet been imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Expense and Ordeal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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