Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve women and 45 men, picketing the Berkshire Knitting Mills in Reading, Pa. by lying flat on its ice-covered front walk, refused to budge under a tear-gas barrage, were arrested, sentenced to 30 days in jail for "blocking the sidewalk...
...home, which he owns, when "De Law" accosted him, asked him where he worked. Anderson replied that he did not work, but lived on $10 a week he received as compensation for his injured arm. Peacher, he said, carted him off in his automobile, threw him into jail with other Negroes he picked up on the way. During their stay in jail they were given no food, Anderson said, were told by Peacher to "sharpen your teeth and gnaw those bars" when they asked for some. After two days in jail Anderson and twelve black companions were herded into...
Last week in Buffalo workmen poking around in the garage of the county jail came upon some dusty timbers. After they were examined the present sheriff of Erie County offered them to the Buffalo Historical Society as an historic relic: the gallows on which the 22nd and 24th President of the U. S. had hanged two men. The timbers were all there, but the rope was missing...
...Action Française accused the Left of "exploiting a dead body." Numbers were on the side of the Left and of suicide, however, and all over France workers by hundreds, then thousands, turned out to parade with banners such as "GRINGOIRE ASSASSINATED SALENGRO!", "FASCISM HAS KILLED SALENGRO!", "TO JAIL WITH SALENGRO'S SLAYERS...
What lawyers hear in their law offices, doctors in their consulting rooms, priests in their confessionals, they need not disclose in courts of law. Newshawks try to preserve a similar code, and sometimes go to jail for doing so, for only in four States-Maryland, New Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming...