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Dismissed, Gangman Capone posed for photographs, smiled happily. Still pending on appeal is his sentence to six months in jail for contempt of Federal court (TIME, March...
...during Chicago's World's Fair in 1933. Nominee Thompson, seeking a fourth term, charged that Nominee Cermak had defrauded the U. S. on income tax payments. "When all the royalty comes from Europe to Chicago's World Fair, it will be embarrassing if they have to go to jail to meet the Mayor of this town and that's where Tony will hold office if he's elected...
...Heartening to Negroes was the news, three days prior, that the second of six Atlanta whites who killed a Negro youth last year had been found guilty. He was sentenced to jail for from two to three years. One of the murderer's accomplices had already received a 12-to-15-year sentence, rare for Georgia...
...intense nationalism, Tim Healy generally kept out of jail, never joined the Sinn Fein, and thoroughly disapproved of the Easter Rebellion of 1916. It has been said that picking Tim Healy for first Governor General of the Free State in 1922 was the most brilliant political stroke that Prime Minister Bonar Law ever made. King George would never have approved anyone connected with Sinn Fein. Catholic Ireland would not have accepted anyone who was not a confirmed Home-Ruler...
...Casale of Brooklyn wanted to ride on the subway but had no nickel. Ingenious, he carried water in a folding cup to the turnstile slot, poured it in. The water completed the electrical contact, allowed him to enter the subway. But a watchman caught him, had him sent to jail for two days...