Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Bryan Untiedt was not in West Point but in jail at Golden, Colo., unable to pay a $13 fine for driving a truck without a license. Said Hero Untiedt: "Just because people once said I was a hero doesn't make me any better than the next fellow. I know I should have had a license but I've had a lot of trouble making ends meet and I couldn't spare the money...
...black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital life is confined to irregular weekends, but Emma Tenayuca declares pertly: "I love my husband...
...crowd of angry Mexicans armed with shotguns and rifles appeared from alleys and adobe huts. Young men, clinging to the running boards of automobiles, raced through the street firing shots in the air. At the temporary jail, the crowd smashed windows and set it afire with wads of gasoline-soaked rags. Some of the mob kept fire engines away by lying prone in the street. Not finding the prisoner, the crowd next attacked the police station, burned it also. Next call was the stone Federal building, where Federal troops were drawn up with loaded rifles. As the mob approached. General...
Changing her mind about signing a bond, Mrs. Kite was released from jail...
...fumed in jail for four hours before her husband got her out. They started for Peiping with Robert Karl Reischauer, Princeton lecturer, but Reischauer decided Shanghai would be safer. Two weeks later he was killed by a bomb in the International Settlement (TIME...