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...bound milk and food trucks, braved ax handles, tear gas and blackjacks, stormed the Sunshine dairy at Waterford three times in a day, destroying 34,000 Ib. of milk by dumping it on the ground, pouring gasoline in the vats. Thirty-five picketers at Wausau were arrested, thrown in jail, after they demolished a truck...
Last year the Socialist Government of Manual Azana finally banished him from the Cortes and clapped him into jail, held him there without trial. From his cell Juan March pulled every wire in sight, got himself elected to the Tribunal of Constitutional Guarantees to judge the work of the Republic and was more than any other man responsible for the downfall of the Azana Cabinet (TIME, Sept...
Last week he decided that he had been in jail long enough, walked out the front door, climbed into a car full of friends and drove off, taking one of the lesser wardens with him. Pressed for an explanation, Chief Night Jailer Martinez Hernaiz said he had let his prominent prisoner escape because he said he did not feel well. Behind him Juan March left a letter for his lawyer, Tomas Perie...
...TIME for Oct. 23 under the title Crime, 'Hardest Jail." the following statement is made: "Its" rocky sides rising sheer as a battleship, swept by tidal currents too strong for any man to swim, a little island called Alcatraz dots the broad expanse of San Francisco...
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler after a U. S. Federal warrant had been issued last week for the arrest of Heinz Spanknoebel, zealous fomenter of Nazi activities in the U. S., under a Wartime act which provides five years in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both, for "acting as a foreign governmental agent without notice to the Secretary of State." Heinz Spanknoebel promptly disappeared. Ships were searched at sea, detectives ferreted. Best opinion seemed to be that Nazi Spanknoebel was hiding somewhere among the beer kegs and singing waiters of Manhattan's Yorkville...