Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Activity. In Los Angeles, Municipal Judge Byron J. Walters, sentencing John Amodeo to a year in jail for mixing horsemeat into ground beef, declared: "Hamburgers are an American institution...
Frankie was pinched trying to organize the pea pickers of the Imperial Valley. Frankie was pinched for unlawful assembly in Los Angeles. He was in jail the night before Reggie bore him a baby, Timothy. His ostensible employment was that of an ice man. With that other, ever-loyal functionary, Willie Schneiderman,* he tried to organize the waterfront, and began to attract the attention of party headquarters in New York. He was charged with resisting arrest during a melee in Los Angeles' Plaza. Then during an unemployment demonstration he waved a placard reading, "Defend the Soviet Union...
...Gibbons is the widowed mother of three grown boys, two of whom are in jail and the other on probation. As the play opens, she is being proposed to by a gentleman who has been a trusty employee of the Gas Company for the past 25 years. He is surprised (through this member of the audience was not) when at the end of the first act the two jailed sons break in through the living room window and wreck mother's chance of re-marriage. Mother, throughout the play, believes her boys to be angels, and the victims...
...character of the mother, as played by Lois Bolton, is frequently pathetic: she is not insane, (as say, the two sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace,") but is obviously genuinely in love with her sons. She is thrilled to have them back home even if it means a jail-break, and she is also quite serious about her Gas Company beau...
Part of the Bargain. He was not a prisoner long. The Spaniards had neglected to take away his escape kit, which contained a small, highly tempered saw. "The bars in that jail were brass," Chuck says. "The saw ate right through them." He and his pals "fooled around Spain for a while, swiping chickens." Then the British gathered them up and forwarded them to England. "The British fed us good," says Chuck, "I gained 25 pounds." Right off, he shot down five Germans...