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Word: jails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mate. In Tulare, Calif., when Robert Brown was refused a night's lodging in the city jail, he objected so violently that he was haled into court, sentenced to six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...newspapers, and mail goes by pony express. There are no lawyers, because the government thinks that lawyers stir up more trouble than they are worth. A magistrate hears both sides of an argument, makes his judgment. Crime is so rare that there are never more than 15 prisoners in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIKKIM: Land of the Uphill Devils | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Mother Duncan, already in jail for the fraudulent annulment, was led from her cell and charged-along with Baldonado and Moya-with murder. Angrily, she denied all, called the whole thing a frame-up to hurt her Frank. Frank himself hid under an assumed name in a Hollywood apartment until the cops tracked him down. Then he scarcely grieved over his dead wife and unborn child. But he was shocked and shaken by his mother's plight. Said he: "I could never recall mother doing anything cruel. She would have to be insane to be linked into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...brother monarch such as the one he drafted to King Victor Emmanuel urging him to keep Italy out of the war, but he could not necessarily mail it. His Cabinet decided not to send it. He could express the opinion that it was wrong to let Gandhi out of jail, but if his Indian Viceroy (Lord Wavell) wanted to free him, there was nothing George could do. One thing he could do directly for his people, and that he did. Londoners will never forget him as the man who stayed on deck throughout the blitz, even though Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only a Naval Officer | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...last week, with Iviglia's charges supported by court-appointed scientists and "style experts," the court found Dealer Werro guilty of "falsifying labels'' and "forgery in two cases," fined him 5,000 Swiss francs, sentenced him to a one-year conditional jail term. The decision, said Investigator Iviglia. would knock the bottom out of the old-violin market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Impostor Strads | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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