Word: jails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threatened with "slavery" in the coal mines and was arrested by the Security Police. "It is the only place in the world," according to Danes, "where you can be proud to be in jail...
...Communist leaders, recently sentenced to jail, were convicted of violation of the Smith Act, which prohibits advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence...
...decree by Governor Dever freed Bert C. MacLeech 3G yesterday from a fugitive from justice charge on which he has been in jail since last May. The charge had specified that he was wanted in Tacoma, Washington for perjury alledgedly committed when he sought a confirmatory divorce there...
...Africa's black men must carry official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set aside for natives). Some 75,000 blacks go to jail each year because they are without proper passes. A hangover from slavery days, the pass system is a major grievance of the black majority against the ruling white minority...
...circulation, manages to cram its pages with sex, invariably in the guise of deploring pornography and impropriety. Sample: when a schoolmaster and his 10-year-old girl pupils went off into the woods after watching a school sex-instruction film (he got three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just to show "the urgent need for [legal] reform...