Word: jails
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With so many charges he scarcely knew what to do, Judge Corrigan lodged them in a jail, a Catholic home, a welfare institution. Then he conferred anxiously with Attorney General Bennett and Lawyer Samuel Seabury, the referee in charge of the State's investigation of the city courts. Upshot: back went all but one of the girls to Bedford. The 48th, one Anna Peltz, whom the New York World described as "a buxom girl of 19 with a wiggling walk," was left in town to be retried as a test case...
...member of the Working Committee of the Nationalist Congress, was a crime. But today the British Government wants India's Nationalist leaders to read, discuss among themselves and accept the plan for "reserved Dominion Status" drafted in London by the Indian Round Table Conference (TIME, Jan. 26). In jail they could read, but not discuss. Therefore, last week, the Viceroy decreed that what had been crimes the day before were no longer crimes, ordered the "unconditional release" of the principal Nationalists and their leader, St. Gandhi...
Recently the bandy-legged little Mahatma has abandoned even goat's milk as too luxurious, subsisted on a mixture of parched Indian corn, California raisins and bird seed. Ordered by telegraph to release St. Gandhi, the British Governor of Yerovda jail in Poona, incredulous, delayed to act, demanded "written orders." When these came St. Gandhi, arrested in the dead of night last May, was released in the dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued...
...richest man in Italy five years ago was Signor Riccardo Gualino, clapped into jail last week. Like the Courtaulds of England, the Gillets of France, the American du Ponts, Italy's Gualino reaped stupendous riches from the comparatively new trick of producing silk without silkworms. He became a billionaire-in lire. Only recently Billionaire Gualino was virtually sole owner of Snia Viscosa, the leading Italian artificial silk works. His philanthropies were on a scale approached by no other Italian. Sometime ago, when his affairs became entangled, "The Richest Man in Italy" was able to borrow from Banca Agricola Italiana...
...Russia, including felling, removing, sawing and shipping, is at present carried on not only by means of convict labor and compulsory labor but also by free labor. It would therefore be impossible to prove legally that any particular consignment of timber was made or produced in a foreign prison, jail, house of correction or penitentiary...