Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, picketing was peaceful. Then, after pickets broke up a back-to-work movement, Univis got a court order re stricting picketing. Later, nine men & women were fined for violence, two of them given jail sentences. The U.E. local and international were fined $250 apiece...
...Springing Osmans. Witness Arthur Osman, president of Local 65, shouted ringingly: "For every Osman you put in jail another Osman will spring up." On orders of Committee Chairman Charles Kersten, marshals ejected him. Jack Paley, secretary-treasurer of the same local, achieved similar treatment. His last words as he was hustled to the door: "I don't think the committee should be concerned with my politics...
...others also refused to answer what Congressman Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley law, called "the $64 question." Chairman Kersten said that all nine would be cited for contempt of Congress, punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Readmitted to the courtroom, Witness Osman shouted that the committee's action reflected "the corrupt, degenerate mentality of men who have made the House of Representatives a house of ill repute...
...moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde's enormous wealth and social prestige rested wholly upon her very efficient management of a profitable white-slave trade. Since it was necessary to arrest somebody, the police, like the Oxford authorities, saw that Paul...
...death is all that he lives for. Peaceful Jones (Charles Kemper) is a refreshing anomaly from the tired list of western old-timers and dry-tongued farmers. After each Saturday-night drunk, he is chained to a tremendous log (Furnace Creek has not yet got around to building a jail) which he cheerfully heaves up and carries along with him, back...