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...sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
...were arrested; the Acra house was raided. Attorney General Benne.lt dug up another assault charge against the racketeer, found weapons in his automobile. With these counts, a previous conviction for burglary and an old sentence for deserting the Army against Diamond, Attorney General Bennett hopes to send him to jail under the Baumes Law for life as a fourth offender...
...perhaps ten minutes L'Osservatore sold as fast as sellers could make change. Then Fascist police pounced. Bewildered, feebly -protesting newsvendors were marched off to face Fascist judges, sentenced uniformly to six days in jail. "If you sell L'Osservatore Romano hereafter," the culprits were sternly warned, "you must do so without announcing its contents...
...took three days for his confederates to raise the unusually high bail of $25,000. Greene County seemed determined to jail him or run him out of the neighborhood, where his activities menace the summer tourist trade (mostly peace-loving New York Jews...
Also in the Cabinet, but not recently in jail, were Minister of State Alejandro Lerroux (who will hold down Spain's seat on the council of the League of Nations), Minister of War Manuel Azana and Minister of Finance Indalecio Prieto...