Word: jails
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...send me to jail for this? Planters all through the South hold Negroes who work for them and owe them money. I handle Negroes the same way everyone else does. There isn't any other way to handle them. I chained them to trees because I couldn't trust them not to run away...
...brother to Josef. Jan remembers the time when Josef, equipped not only with walrus whiskers but also a handsome, goatlike beard, was clapped into jail by the Imperial Russian Government for making exactly the same sort of remarks he makes as Dictator today. Jan remembers how Josef's lawyers suggested that in jail he act and talk like a madman, and how magnificently Josef played the role, and how the Imperial Russian Government was so obtuse as to transfer him to a hospital in St. Petersburg, whence he promptly escaped...
...Bucharest last week the editors of Lupta and Taranismul (antiRoyalist newsorgans) were at such a zero hour. Next day there would go into effect a law providing jail sentences for printing "any derogatory reference or report concerning the Royal Family." What should be the editors' last unmuzzled words...
Prince Carol, Queen Marie and Prince Nicholas of Rumania are beyond question the three most notorious royal persons now alive. Volumes could be filled with absolutely truthful statements about them which, under Rumanian law, cannot now be printed without risking jail. The problem faced by the editors of Lupta and Taranismul was thus one of selection...
...publication owns no property abroad, that other journals which do so are foolish. Said he: "I have never been to Europe. I have never had any curiosity to go. Now I have the best excuse in the world. Green has a big expense account, so let him go to jail...