Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piracy on the high seas, and will be treated accordingly."* Though China's face was thus slapped again & again by Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party he permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged...
...utter and complete confusion of the forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...
...Coughlin carbon-copy, Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, of Louisiana. This worthy successor to the mantle of Huey Long, revealed his true colours when, blinded by the rout of his forces, he turned to obscene and filthy language on the streets of New Orleans and was thrown into jail; what power he ever had ended for ever...
...spent a year in Platte County Jail in Missouri writing a treatise on "A System of Accounts for A Small Consumer's Co-Operative." Later as a trusty bookkeeper in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth he: 1) met his boyhood idol Big Bill Hay wood and 2) was allowed to study all the books on economics and socialism he wanted. A week after he was paroled he joined the Communist Party, spent five years with William Z. Foster boring from within the American Federation of Labor, later visited Russia, passed two years as a union organizer in Hankow, returned...
...income taxes, whose evasion sent Public Enemy Al Capone to jail for eleven years in 1931, plus accrued interest at 12%, the Federal Government put up for sale Capone's gaudy island estate off Miami Beach, Fla. In Moab, Utah, his old armored limousine, on tour as a crime exhibit, was junked after a wreck. To University of Chicago students Lawyer Clarence Darrow observed: ''I think Al Capone got a terribly wrong deal ... an outrageous deal...