Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beaumont, Tex., Sheriff W. W. Richardson arrested 236 shipping picketers in one day, threatened to build a prison stockade if he had to arrest any more...
...Constitution's XIIIth Amendment was adopted, forbidding the keeping of slaves. In 1866 Congress passed a statute making slave-keeping punishable by a $5,000 fine, five years in prison. Not once in 70 years had the law been invoked until three months ago when a Federal Grand Jury at Little Rock, Ark. indicted Paul D. Peacher, Crittenden County cotton planter and former deputy sheriff, for "aiding and abetting in causing persons to be held as slaves...
...this man," Judge Martineau was moved to remark to the jury after the evidence was in. Peacher was heard to remark: "He don't scare me none. That jury will turn me loose." After nearly three hours the jury pronounced him guilty, recommending he be spared a prison sentence. Immediately Judge Martineau imposed a fine of $3,500, a two-year prison term. Planter Peacher and Arkansas were speechless...
...forgetting that during the War he fought bravely for Germany, but unwilling to forgive him for having published in 1929-three years before Adolf Hitler came to power-an article accusing the German Army of spending too much money, the Nazis in 1933 jugged Carl von Ossietzky in a prison camp. Last week Berlin correspondents put up the plea that since Herr von Ossietzky had just been awarded the $40,000 Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Nov. 30), perhaps, as a great favor, the Ministry for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment would authorize them to interview the Prizeman in a sanatorium to which...
...Denver, Elmer Franklin McVay, 47, who since 1911 has spent all but 39 months of his life in jail, stole a typewriter on which to write his prison memoirs, was arrested and sentenced to three years in Leavenworth...