Word: jails
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...have the case dropped. Clearly they had been intimidated by the racketeers. "What do they think I am going to do, fold up the county and hand it over to them?" angrily demanded Attorney Foley. "If I get an even break, I am going to put everybody involved in jail!" Seeking a case to peg a general assault on the whole corrupt kosher poultry racket, Attorney Foley clapped his fright- ened witnesses in prison, set their bail at $25,000 apiece. When two days later, an unknown benefactor turned up with their bond, the partners became thoroughly alarmed...
...wired to the handbrake and the magneto. Its makers planned to abandon it in front of Havana's police headquarters. When police released the handbrake to drive it away, the huge charge would blow police and headquarters to scraps. The three riggers were whisked off to jail...
...critical. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the noble youngster who will fly licuor across the Canadian border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist in exploiting her physical charm instead of her ability...
...British courtmartial of Lieut. Norman Baillie-Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders (TIME. April 3): cashiering (no "drumming out" ceremony) and a sentence of five years in a civil jail. Charged on ten counts with selling military secrets to German agents ("Marie Louise" and "Otto Waldemar Obst"), he was convicted on seven...
...baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent. Between fits of injured dignity Elmer finds time to bat the team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect that he has been dickering with city slickers to throw the game. Only in the last ten seconds of a wild inning does the panic-stricken team realize that Elmer is out-slicking the slickers...