Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days later County Judge James G. Young ordered David sent to a boys' ranch for delinquent children. Robert, seemingly unperturbed after a good long cry, waited in the county jail. He was charged with murder. In the pleasant streets of Woodward, astonished grownups asked each other how such a thing could happen in their town...
...dominate the Lukiko (Buganda's Parliament). On one pretext or another, Freddie's supporters went after the leaders of those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko rejected a plan to hold direct elections for Buganda's five delegates to the British-sponsored Legislative Council of Uganda, followed up with a resolution withdrawing official recognition from all political parties...
...took over the government, with the new mayor, grey-haired Mrs. Hazel Shattock, pledged to abolish the speed trap. Major reason for the change: the people of Hialeah Gardens had seen hardly a penny of the speed-trap collections. Most of the money had gone toward a new jail, the cost of keeping traffic records, and ever-new, always souped-up patrol cars...
...their ads placed in the publications of their own choice. But if Turkey's publishers had any doubts about the power of the government's new club, they had only to consider the case of 33-year-old Metin Toker. Last year Toker spent seven months in jail for having criticized a government official in his weekly TIME-styled newsmagazine Akis. When the new advertising agency went into effect, his quota...
...judge handed down his verdict-guilty. For Student Rapine: three years in jail. For Pastor Mathiot: eight months. "I put my conscience above justice," said Mathiot. "I would do it again...