Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iranian political methods with a passion for reform and an incorrigible interest in blue prints. Despiser of meddling, dictating European governments, he nevertheless admires Western habits and dress, Western technical achievements. Just as Kamal Atatürk had ordained in Turkey a few years before, Reza Shah Pahlavi ordered jail sentences for turban-wearers, forbade veils for Iranian women. Robed, turbaned mullahs were obliged to carry licenses. The Iranian habit of contracting temporary marriages, sanctioned by the Shiah sect of Mohammedanism, was so curtailed by the Shah that polygamy became difficult. The number of wives decreased, the number of prostitutes...
...bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were killed, scores injured in clashes. To the 264 seats, only twelve Wafdists and 84 Saadists were elected. His Majesty's Opposition are therefore not expected to give Farouk much trouble...
...withheld taxes. Most informers were dismissed bookkeepers, disgruntled former partners, divorced wives who knew too much about their former husbands. In one case, however, it was a loving wife who tipped off the Bureau on her husband's dodge, explaining: "I wanted to keep him from going to jail." For her errand of devotion she scorned reward...
...minutes after Policeman S. C. Hopkins of Washington, Ga. jailed a Negro woman for fighting, he was confronted on his beat by the same woman. Said she: "Don't get mad with me. I didn't break out of jail. I just come down here to tell you the back door is open...
...county jail of Amarillo, Tex., Jailer Dick Vaughn moved two men from solitary confinement cells after discovering they had trained a large cockroach to bring them cigarets from other prisoners...