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...Hanau went to jail after her subscribers had lost 120,000,000 francs ($4,800,000) in the securities she recommended and sold (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...
...against French law to feed forcibly a prisoner in jail. Therefore Mme Hanau was removed under guard to Cochin hospital, where the seven brawny internes had a struggle indeed. The tip of a funnel was placed in one of Mme Hanau's nostrils. Some lukewarm cafe au lait was poured into her. After this ordeal the patient seemed to be so exhausted that she was merely locked in a hospital room and left alone without special guards...
...ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
...scare," Lord Lloyd has confessed. "His was the most colossal experiment in world history, and it came within an inch of succeeding. But he couldn't control men's passions. They became violent, and he called off his program. You know the rest. We put him in jail...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. Elizabeth Beswick, mother of 18 children, thief, was described as "a lurking menace to society," sentenced to five years in jail for fraud...