Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inquisitor Seabury is in the extraordinary position of representing all three branches of State government?judicial, executive, legislative. In the first capacity he has had eight policemen indicted, sent six others to prison, removed two magistrates, sent three scampering off under fire. In his capacity as the Governor's representative to hear malfeasance charges against doddering District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain of New York County, Tammany Sachem, he had not, up to last weekend, reported his conclusions. As the Legislature's agent he was pressing his queries into the political machinery of sprawling Queens Borough, and even into...
...again the next day and nearly eight hours the day after that when their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were all for. leniency. But the army openly favored a prison term. It appeared that the investigation might go on for many more days...
...sentence of the court is that you be kept in prison in the Second Division for twelve months...
Still wearing his long black coat and his high silk hat, Sir Owen Cosby Philipps Baron Kylsant straightway motored to Wormwood Scrubs, passed through the jail doors. Newshawks had scarcely finished writing of what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois; little Jacques, accidental son of a sleazy, sailor-loving woman; Father Hector, dilettante by nature, missionary by vocation. Once a year the boats from France came in, bringing letters and supplies from home; missionaries and trappers came from the wilderness with tall...