Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Still in jail were Publisher Rudolf Augstein and the top editors of his brash newsmagazine, which had angered the government by its incessant criticism and allegedly had broken the law by its publication of "secret" details of the strength of the West German army (TIME. Nov. 9). Still scouring Der Spiegel's Hamburg headquarters for evidence were the squads of police that last month had pounced on the staff in a series of midnight raids...
...them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price to $25 per square yard in one year, one of several convicted German swindlers was sentenced to jail for selling compatriots choice homesites on the ocean floor...
...states have such laws: Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee are without them. In New York, for example, adultery is punishable by a six-month jail term and/or a $250 fine. But the laws are rarely invoked. In 1948, a year chosen for study, only 267 arrests were made in the whole country and of these, 242 were in Boston...
...Bruce Co., Inc., the lumber milling giant that he had bossed before fleeing last June; twelve New York State charges of grand larceny; a U.S. tax lien amounting to $3,500,000. The erstwhile timber wolf of Wall Street faced up to 194 years in jail. Why then had he returned from extradition-free Brazil...
...Mind Jail." Then came phone calls from his Manhattan lawyer Arnold Bauman. On the basis of these conversations Gilbert figured he might beat his raps-or some of them. Buoyed by that thought and the prospect of a lighter sentence if he returned voluntarily, Gilbert winged back. He was still vowing to "pay off all those people who had faith in me and then lost everything they had," which would take some doing if the feds got all the money they were seeking. Mostly, though, Playboy Gilbert seemed to be longing for the company of an audience...