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...jailing followed a frantic day. At 3:30 a. m. a Chicago Assistant State's Attorney had awakened him at his $20-a-week boarding house in Orillia, Ont. and demanded his voluntary return to Chicago. He flatly refused. Next morning he and his loyal friends Mr. & Mrs. William Barker of Highland Park, Ill. who had arrived in their car during the night to be with him, motored to Toronto to see lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian...
...American Negro. ' Then President Hoover shook hands with his fellow Republicans, was photographed with them. ¶While President Hoover was laying the cornerstone for' the new Post Office Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, one Edward Wells, war veteran, yelled "hurrah for Roosevelt!CPolice clapped Veteran Wells in jail, said he was drunk...
...where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which the Mahatma forbade? Far more potent than...
...minutes a writ of habeas corpus, pleading the statute of limitations on his conviction for income tax law violations in 1025. 1926, 1927, got Federal Prisoner Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone out of jail. Then he was clapped back into Atlanta Penitentiary, with a hearing on the writ...
...Latin American countries, college students start political revolutions. In continental Europe they riot politically, go to jail. In England they debate intelligently at the Oxford Union, stand for Parliament, take government seriously. In the U. S., many a college student does not even bother to vote...