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...Bossy" Gillis strewed his vacant lot with tombstones and household crockery labelled: "The Spirit of Newburyport." He called on Mayor Mike Cashman, punched his jaw and spent two months in jail denouncing "the fossils that run this burg...
...editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved his problem by appearing in impeccable full dress at the head of irresistible forces of police and beseeching M. Daudet "in the name of France" to give himself up. Thus...
...imagine that their rights in foreign lands are less firmly upheld than those of British subjects. The Lion, it is said, defends his own; but the Eagle only squawks. Last week popped up pertinently the case of one John Harvey Hargreaves, British subject. Eighteen months ago Mr. Hargreaves was jailed on an eight-year sentence for deserting from the French Foreign Legion. Last fortnight he was still in jail; but a U. S. deserter from the same French unit, one Bennett J. Doty, had been released from a similar eight-year sentence through pressure by the U. S. State Department...
...academic question, but the statistics that suggest it were published last week in the annual report of U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Dr. James M. Doran. In fiscal 1927, 11,818 Prohibition law violators were sentenced to a grand total of 4,477 years in jail...
...Boston paper, the Sunday Telegram, edited by the lately released Mr. Enwright. He will be remembered as the gentleman who was charged with libel when he referred to the prison term of a Boston Mayor. The latter, Mr. Curley, with ironic humor, saw that he was put in jail, with the implication that it might be a glass house where one could break stones and not throw them. But Mr. Enwright was not cast down, and arose Prometheus like with his sickly pinkish paper which is an avowed attempt to outdo the most rabid tabloids. And it is unbelievably successful...