Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony had lasted three days; the judge reserved his decision until next week. Petrillo could be fined $1,000 and sent to prison for a year. He mused thoughtfully: "The U.S. attorney didn't say I should go to jail...
...Proclaimed amnesty (and thus restoration of civil rights) for 1,523 violators of the wartime Selective Service Act. Still unpardoned: some 13,600 violators. On Christmas Day, 16 of those still unpardoned put on mock prison stripes and picketed the White House for two hours, demanding amnesty...
...year ago, anti-Communist Lipinski was charged with treason and espionage involving the supply of information to the U.S. and British embassies in Warsaw. Six others tried with him "confessed," but even after a year in the Mokotow Prison, where many an iron will snaps, Lipinski refused to enter a guilty plea...
Criminals, clergymen, clerks, teachers, students, prison inmates, men of various types and ages were interviewed and urged to tell all. As a result of the tabulated testimony, Kinsey concludes that 85% of the total U.S. male population has premarital intercourse; nearly 70% has relations with prostitutes; between 30% and 45% has extra-marital intercourse; 37% has some homosexual experience between adolescence and old age, with the highest rate among single males...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...