Word: jails
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...Prohibition under the 18th Amendment and the law enacted by Congress for its enforcement has . . . collapsed. You cannot reform a nation by sending respectable citizens, as fast as the courts can act, to jail or prison for doing what they and their ancestors for generations have regarded as a matter of private concern. . . . The Democratic Party of Connecticut stands for the repeal. . . . Action is imperative if the people of the United States are to be kept from degenerating into a nation of gin-drinkers...
...Revoke his "restrictive ordinances" which have gagged the Gandhi press and sent thousands to jail for such crimes as picketing (TIME...
...Jail Diplomacy." In London the Rothermere (yellow Conservative) press screeched that "Lord Irwin's jail diplomacy has failed!" and decorous Conservative papers said the same thing less neatly. The Laborite Daily Herald, worried, took refuge in a Palmerstonian phrase, observed that the Viceroy "reluctantly but perforce will now be unable to contract the latitudes of executive discretion"-i. e., "jail diplomacy" is to continue...
...Well, if I may?" said once omnipotent Dr. Irigoyen humbly and, as the officer nodded, he put on his hat. On certificate of the garrison physician that he really had pneumonia, El Hombre went not to jail but into a barrack bed. Pen and paper were brought. Feebly but without hesitation the sick man wrote his resignation...
...fussing near the bank. They shot at him, wounded him, ran and hid in the neighboring swamps. Police Chief Robert L. Freeman led a posse to capture the recreants. The two shot from ambush, killed Chief Freeman, wounded two others. The hunters caught George Grant, 40, locked him in jail. Georgia is restive these days. So Col. Roy Neal of the Georgia National Guard hastened to Darien with 25 men and machine guns. Armed townsmen tramped past the machine guns, grim and unmolested, entered Darien's jail, shot George Grant dead-lynching No. 13 of this year. Gov. Lamartine...