Word: jails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went smoothly up to last November when Commander Yamaguchi supplanted Commander Yamaki at the Embassy, coldheartedly resolved to pay Farnsworth on a piecework basis. This sudden drop in income forced the liquor-sodden Farnsworth to go to Newshawk Lewis. It was not long before "Dodo" was in jail...
...Russia's share of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes for 80 rubles ($16) but was caught red-handed selling them for 100 rubles to a friend who had not cared to stand in line all night...
...Chicago, Walter Brown, held for larceny, picked up a broom, swept busily past the guards, down the hall, out the door of the county jail to freedom...
...Brown still in jail in New York City and would there be any chance of recovering any of my loss...
...Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back to his German birthplace only to show off his Danish wife, asked and got the backing...