Word: jails
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...Brown. The Great Khan squawked to the State Department that he might lose his post as Minister from Iran. The Star then struck off two copies of a special edition in which Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell...
...second group is Jesse Stuart, 28-year-old author of Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, a volume of 703 colloquial sonnets characterizing the poet's neighbors, sweethearts and kinsfolk. Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism. A third is Ed Bell, who last week published Fish on the Steeple, a rowdy, hilarious novel that captured the flavor of life in the small hill towns where all the males pack guns and where all strangers...
...technicality of the law which had to be pursued under the circumstances. The judge realized that not only was the publicity, which the case has received, enough punishment but also that the very nature of the accident was enough to have more effect on anyone than a jail sentence...
...Birmingham, when Mrs. Ernestine Meeks refused probation for a liquor law violation and began to serve a 60-day jail term, her husband, sometime subpoena server, crowed: "There has been a lot of talk about us having a drag. I want people to know we serve our time in jail like other respectable people...
...attacks on the Prussian State until the Prussian Government succeeded in having him expelled from France. Living in Brussels, he met Engels again, collaborated with him, was arrested after the French revolution of 1848, when the King of the Belgians feared an uprising. Jenny was also arrested, placed in jail with prostitutes. Released, Marx returned to the Rhineland after the outbreak of the German revolution. In Cologne the 30-year-old rebel met two U. S. newspapermen, Albert Brisbane (father of Arthur) and Publisher Charles Dana of the New York Tribune. He deeply impressed them with his "great energy," with...