Word: jails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Underwood was called to the phone again. This time it was Photographer Fowler calling from Nourse's chambers. Said he: "All right, Aggie. I took the picture. Now I'm under arrest. I've already been convicted, fined $100 and sentenced to five days in jail." That was just what Campbell and Underwood had been hoping for. The case before Judge Nourse, involving a petition to recall Mayor Fletcher Bowron, was hardly sensational news. But the Her-Ex thought that there was an important principle at stake. Almost all Los Angeles courts permit photographs when...
...Will Be Heard." Garrison became an abolitionist hero in 1830 when, as a young Baltimore editor, he denounced a slave trader in print. Fined $50 and costs for his "gross and malicious libel," he went to jail because he lacked the money. In jail he. wrote a thundering pamphlet about his case-and his career as a reformer had begun...
Next morning the poets took off for what they hoped would be a more amiable reception in Bogotá. The 13 critics were still in jail and there was no telling, said the chief of Venezuela's National Security Police, how long they would be there...
Policemen, stationed in the rear of the hall against just such an emergency, finally located the light switch, then nabbed 13 suspects as they headed for the door. When the intruders had been hauled off to jail, the shaken poets resumed their readings. "This," declared one, pointing to an egg stain on his coat, "is a decoration from the international brigades in Stalin's service...
...Hand. In Harlan, Ky., Elmer Howard was arrested for breaking into the city jail...