Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election day Erie County's 179,000 citizens elected him by a bare majority of 303 votes, trailing his ticket. He did a good job as sheriff. He cleaned out graft in the dissolute county jail and made himself unpopular with local politicians, but misfortune lay in store...
...went back to Buffalo, had a gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see Matricide Patrick, and sprung the trap...
...Moscow to disappear is usually to have been picked up by Stalin's secret police who are uncommunicative about their prisoners. Good Soviet sources told correspondents that Herr Streck was in jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave...
...completed until 1938. Top deck has six lanes, will permit 10,000,000 cars to cross annually. Experts predict that tolls will amortize the bridge's cost in 20 years. Drivers may hit 45 m.p.h. on the span. For those who go faster there is a tabloid jail in one of the towers. Before nightfall on the first day it had been well used...
Meanwhile he turned out well-phrased records of his adventures, was a Socialist member of Parliament, spent two months in jail for rioting, made a scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party...