Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Trommer's is one version of an apocryphal story. According to another version, Capone's highjinks disturbed the sleep of J. C. Penney's house guest Herbert Hoover who, in turn, put Capone in jail. The solid facts are: 1) Penney's estate was on an island nearly a mile across the lagoon from Capone's; 2) Hoover was a house guest at the Penney estate in January 1929; 3) Miami police arrested Capone at least three times in April and May 1930 on charges of "being a public nuisance and source of annoyance...
Brenda was outraged. It wasn't going to jail that bothered her so much as being double-crossed. She promised the raiders that she was going to get even in a big way. Chief Horrall wasn't worried: "Los Angeles is the cleanest city in California...
...Jail, exile, violence and intrigue had been part & parcel of Kim Koo's life for more than half a century. At 19, he killed a Japanese policeman in Korea, served several years in prison. Later Kim Koo went into exile in China, further enhanced his reputation both as an intense Korean nationalist and ruthless political terrorist: To friend & foe alike, he became known as "The Tiger...
...leading political prisoner has been scholarly Valmore Rodriguez, president of the Senate during the Gallegos regime. The junta admits that some 200 such prisoners (the underground says 2,000) are still in jail. It does not know what to do with them. Moaned Llovera Páez: "If we exile them, they discredit us abroad. If we free them in the country, they lead the opposition against us. If we keep them in jail everybody criticizes...
When it protested the 1939 acquittal (on extortion charges) of one "Putty Nose" Brady as a "burlesque of justice," the P-was fined $2,000 for contempt of court; Editor Coghlan was sentenced to 20 days in jail and a $200 fine for okaying the editorial. Readers applauded his and the P-D's insistent courage, and the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the convictions in 1941. When F.D.R. traded 50 overage destroyers to Britain, Coghlan lit into him in a hysterically isolationist editorial (Dictator Roosevelt Commits An Act of War). In 1942, during the scrap drive, Coghlan recommended that...