Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the verdict, Meyers' blonde wife struggled through the crowd to put her arm around him, wept a little. Meyers was impassive. This week he was sentenced to 20 months to five years in prison...
...Washington, 36-year-old Harold Christoffel, onetime president of Milwaukee's United Automobile Workers(C.I.O.) Local 248 and leader of two long, bitter strikes at the Allis-Chalmers plant, stood long-faced as a federal judge sentenced him to prison for two to six years for perjury. He had lied repeatedly to the House Labor Committee when he denied being a Communist or having Communist affiliations (TIME, June...
...great many Georgians were intensely displeased by this tawdry barbarism. Governor Melvin Thompson took steps to counteract it. He ordered two prisoners removed from Reidsville's safe Tatnall State Prison and sent back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...
Except on restricted atomic information, whose disclosure "with the intent to injure the U.S." may be punished with anything from a $10,000 fine and ten years in prison, to death...
...stand accused." In some states the law would have protected them from such questioning. New York has no such law. So last week Clarke and Leonard were fined $100 each for contempt of court and clapped into jail to serve ten days. (They straightway began writing a series on prison life...