Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name, address and office, if any, of the donor; further that all campaign deficits be published and monthly lists of those who contributed to make up such deficits be given after each election. As penalty for failure in these duties he attached a $5,000 fine, one year in prison, or both. This proposition was such that none of the unco-good Senators could oppose it. Senator Robinson, Democratic Floor Leader, assisted in framing it. Senator Edge, sponsor of the bill, thought the publicity clause had no place in a postal salary measure. So he refrained from voting...
...trial is historic. Caillaux contended that the papers seized were merely evidence of his intimate dreams, defended himself with great skill and eloquence. He was, however, sentenced to three years in prison, banished from Paris for five years, had his civic rights suspended for ten years...
...reputed to be Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean come to life. Having escaped from Cayenne, French penal settlement in Guiana, in 1904, returned to France under an assumed name, made a modest fortune, become well-known and respected in Metz, he was found out and sent to prison. Fifty prominent people of Metz petitioned the Minister of Justice in Paris for Jean Hateau's release, stating that they wanted him back as a free...
...short time ago an incident occurred which irromediably shattered. Sir Henry's inherlted confidence in the fundamental goodness of his follow men, and seriously distifibed his belief in the applicability of his father's theories. A criminal was brought up for sentence, and instead of committing him forthwith to prison, the son of Charles Dickens found him a job and placed him on parole. Three months later the man was again in the dock. Sir Henry was disconsolate...
...only have few of the bucket-shop cases of two years ago resulted in prison sentences, but many of the cases have not yet even come up for trial. In cases where convictions have been secured, usually the jail sentences have run less than three years...