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Havana. Crowds were forbidden. Anyone who "gossiped against the Government" was liable to 15 days in jail, & a $50 fine, as was anyone who appeared in the streets bareheaded and wearing a beard. Police had discovered that a bristling beard and a bare head were being adopted by young Cubans as badge of revolutionary sympathy...
Returned to jail, Laurel & Hardy attempt to take part in a jailbreak. But so muddled are their efforts that they aid the authorities more than the inmates and are rewarded by a pardon...
...Rockaway Beach, N.Y., Ray Martin, a Negro, sold liquor under the boardwalk, wore nothing but a one-piece bathing suit of light, bright green. Police raided Ray Martin's bar, arrested Ray Martin, clapped him into jail. For 26 days Ray Martin languished in jail with no other clothing than his light, bright green bathing suit. On the 27th day he borrowed a duster, went to court, pleaded guilty, was fined...
...five years a complicated battle raged in the courts. Harry Sinclair faced the bar of a Federal Court five times in those years, always smiling, debonair, sure of himself. His mood changed to dejection one night in May 1929 when he entered the District of Columbia jail to serve six and one-half months for contempt of the Senate and for jury shadowing, charges arising out of his long battle to escape the more serious accusation of bribery...
Through the long years when his liberty was at stake Harry Sinclair never neglected his company. He travelled with a staff of secretaries and assistants; received reports, laid plans, dreamed probably as much about developing Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. as he did about keeping out of jail. Beside his brother through these humiliating times stood Earle Westwood Sinclair, president of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. since 1921. Trained as a banker in the Southwest where oil is the basis of most wealth, Olde Brother Earle came to know the petroleum business as well as his own. While Brother Harry was packing...