Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coffee 6 Cattle. It was supposedly for the honor of Rio Grande do Sul that in 1930 General Flores da Cunha's Gauchos rode tumultuously into Rio de Janeiro, hitched their horses to the obelisk on bosky Avenida Rio Branco, bottled old President Washington Luis up in jail and helped Getulio Vargas become President of Brazil. Washington Luis and President-elect Julio Prestes were both from Sao Paulo which was then sorely handicapped by the collapse of the world coffee market and unable to fight back. Since most of Brazil's 20 States, which figure in the world...
...knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were being jailed by the military in unhappy Baltimore, the Government watched the Sun like a cat at a mousehole. The editor-in-chief put his sheet to bed with a Federal marshal literally looking over his shoulder. But Publisher Abell managed...
Schooled mainly in Reformed theology, Abraham Muste held Reformed and Congregational pulpits, was head of Brookwood Labor College 1921-33, has been secretary of the Amalgamated Textile Workers, has spent nights in jail (for "agitating"). Though he has recanted the barricades, he is still vaguely Marxian, vaguely Trotskyite, mostly ''Musteite"- as other sectarian radicals call his followers of the American Workers' Party. Preacher Muste now has enough taste for organized religion to say: ''The Church, weak and imperfect as it may be, exists, and it seems to me that after the example of Jesus...
...referee's court the matter of Babushkin's cash checks soon came to light. Babushkin could give no reasonable explanation. Bogen swore his partner had been victimizing him. Babushkin went to jail. Smart Guy Bogen, totting up his assets, found he had $20,000, a car, an apartment, a snappy wardrobe, an actress. And he was still a smart...
This episode is not the first time that the Cambridge Police has manifested a desire to "take those Harvard guys in hand". One of the most notable instances of this attitude was the case of an unfortunate Conant scholar in Leverett House last Fall, who was railroaded off to jail on a charge that was later proved to be absolutely untrue, although a false statement of confession had been given out to the papers on the following day. Again, a Phi Beta Kappa student was arrested on the charge of drunkenness, for objecting to being kicked in the posterior...