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...this end a bill was drafted which created a category of minor Prohibition offenses?single sales in small quantities by casual 'leggers. Such offenders, tried by commissioners, would receive a maximum penalty of six months in jail or a $500 fine...
...every U. S. citizen who disapproves of Prohibition should set up and work a tiny still in front of his house, the police might or might not jail the tens of millions of lawbreakers, the 18th Amendment might or might not have to be repealed...
...Gandhi added: "I am preparing a message for the women of India, who, I am becoming more and more convinced, can make a larger contribution than the men toward attainment of independence. . . . The children, let them stay at home and spin while their parents go out to court jail...
...salt making demonstrations spread to other parts of India, more than 80 law-breakers were arrested, including the Mahatma's son Ram Das Gandhi. Those first brought to trial were fined up to $182 or six months in jail. A typical stroke of British statecraft was an announcement by a spokesman for the British Government that: "The Government considers Mr. Gandhi's actions merely symbolical, and not an actual violation...
...laws shot it out with the Kelly boys from Benton, Miss., because of an article which he had printed. In that affray he lost a brother-in-law, D. D. Dorsey. T. A. Kelly was also killed. Governor James Kimble Vardaman had to send troops to protect the jail that lodged Editor Birdsall. Now that he was dead, feud-wise Yazoo City talked it over quietly on Main Street, waited to see who would be next to fall...