Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this by describing how President Chervyakov had been publicly reviled for "letting Fascist termites devour the Party house in Minsk." Apparently the reason why the Worker was able to scoop this story was that Editor Lentser of the rival Star had been thrown into jail as a "Fascist termite...
...White Russia 998 ranking Communist Party members had been expelled as "hostile elements" and 31 more for "spreading Trotsky propaganda." The Worker printed names of 141 persons classed in Minsk officially as "enemies of the people"-this stock phrase meaning in Russia today either that they are already in jail or that police are after them...
Definitely in jail were White Russia's Commissars (local cabinet ministers) for Agriculture and Education-the former accused of "such treasonable acts as ordering wheat planted in apple orchards"-along with that most distinguished Bolshevik, Comrade Moisel Kalmanovich. He until two months ago was Commissar for State Grain and Livestock Farms for the entire Soviet Union, has now been jailed on charges that he ordered Soviet scientists to castrate breeding bulls and inoculate cattle with cholera germs. Finally White Russia's recently executed Red Army commander, General Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, was described last week as having been "little...
...enforcing penalties, have exempted employes in the New Jersey canning industry. In the recent legislative session a new law was passed exempting the canneries but otherwise prohibiting the working of women between midnight and 7 a. m., with $25 to $50 fines for first offenses, $200 for second, jail for recalcitrants. Harkening to pleas of the South Jersey glassmakers and Atlantic City hotel and restaurant owners, Republican Senator Charles E. Loizeaux rushed through a last-minute measure to extend the exemptions. Last fortnight somebody discovered that the law read, "canneries . . ., glass manufacturing establishments and hotel restaurants." It should have read...
That was enough for the court and the derisive spectators who packed it. The court offered "kind" Mrs. Tuttle the choice of $500 fine or a year in jail. As she paid and walked out, the spectators growled with satisfaction, wished her no luck on her appeal...