Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seeing Red. In Victoria, B.C., John Gordon was sentenced to 30 days in jail for emptying a bottle of catsup on a bus driver who didn't stop when Passenger Gordon buzzed...
...Bible wavered and fell to the flc -. Forthwith, Beatrice confessed and, after a search, revealed the missing $200 in her house, was hustled into jail...
...export only. At home, government pressure on Communists has helped to roll back their influence in recent months. Last week India's Communist party got another blow: the national Parliament (with only one dissenting vote) approved the extension of a law permitting the government to jail Communists (and black marketeers) without trial. The law, however, requires the police to consult with a board of retired judges on such arrests...
...became a good one. The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury put her to work as a cub reporter. In 1937, when she was taking pictures in Korea, the Japanese clapped her in jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...
When soldiers pillaged and burned the Trappist monastery at Yangkiaping, writes Grady, the 75 Chinese monks of the community were made prisoners and were led from one squalid mountain jail to another, ''ill fed, poorly clad, roughly treated, along a veritable 'way of the cross,' during which 27 of them died, and at the end of which six others were publicly executed." At the end of his article, Father Grady ists the names of 66 priests, lay brothers and nuns killed in China from 1946 to 1950, and 36 others who died in prison or immediately...