Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead, the individual teachers found guilty of advocating communism will be subject to a $300 fine and a one-year jail sentence...
...Year in Jail...
...presented to the House, H. 442 also included an amendment imposing a $30 fine and a one year jail sentence on the individual found guilty of advocating overthrow of the government in the classroom...
Sneering, he went on scourging the lawless, demonstrated his contempt for Harlan County's rulers by roughing up Sheriff Jim Cawood's son, throwing him in jail and accusing him of being drunk during a football game. One of his deputies quit, became chief of police at Evarts (TIME, Dec. 27), was promptly killed. Five other Evarts police chiefs quit or were arrested. Metcalfe paid no mind...
Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...