Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gallegos was held under protective custody in the Escuela Militar; other prominent Acción Democratistas fled to foreign embassies for sanctuary. Betancourt went into hiding. But the vast majority of the party's politicians and labor leaders were clapped into jail. Union funds were seized by the army. Newspapers were ordered to hew strictly to the army's line, and an almost continuous radio barrage of pro-junta propaganda helped to sell the coup to the country...
...handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every place I go it's 'What's this bribe story?' or 'What's with the Army?' It's as if I was ready to go to jail." He thought he'd see a doctor. He thought he would go see New York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan and try to get Eddie to lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere...
...remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
...greatly surprised by the rottenness he uncovered, found "something impressive about Mr. Truman's devotion to his larcenous constituent," Missouri's Tom Pendergast. Says Irey flatly: "Mr. Truman, then Senator Truman, used every bit of pressure that his office legally permitted to keep Pendergast out of jail...