Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States anyone discovered tapping telephone wires is liable to a fine, jail, or both. But since 1928, when a 5-to-4 U. S. Supreme Court decision upheld the validity of evidence procured against a Puget Sound bootlegging gang by wiretapping Prohibition agents, the Federal Government has become one of the most efficient wiretappers in the U. S. Last week another Supreme Court decision, this time 7-to-2, gave Federal eavesdroppers a sharp box on the ears...
Although Russians still have their mail tampered with, their telephones tapped, and are still likely to be waked up in the night to be carted off to jail without warrant or due process of law, it was a first step toward their education in democracy when Stalin's constitution labeled these things unconstitutional. So likewise it was education last week to 100,000,000 Russians to find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious...
...crowned the small daughter of one of his Italian-born parishioners, Mrs. Grace Ippolita, as "the Virgin Mary," instructing his followers to worship her. In 1923 the "Celestial Messenger" was convicted of ravishing a small girl, was adjudged insane. Convicted later of two more attacks, Abbate was occasionally in jail but always turned loose because of his original insanity. In the Elgin State Hospital (Illinois), where he spent two years, clad in clerical garb, Abbate became a prime exhibit for psychology classes from Chicago universities, readily telling students of the messages and visions he experienced. Last week "Padre" Abbate...
Four years ago Farmers Archie Clark and Oliver Lankford of Kaskaskia, involved with a group of Missouri farmers in a title dispute over a pasture in the Commons, were arrested for trespassing by Sheriff Henry Drury of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., clapped into his jail for seven days. Farmers Clark and Lankford, charging the complainants and Sheriff Drury with false arrest on the ground that they were arrested in Illinois and jailed in Missouri, last week got their $200,000 damage suit before Judge Moore. The defendants produced some witnesses old enough to recall how the river had changed its course...
Crowning witticism of the evening was delater Rosenthal's remark that "although in Cambridge, the big event of the year is the football game between Harvard and Yale, here it is the debate between Harvard and Jail...