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...Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment contains ten counts for refusal to answer ten questions. If found guilty in the course of a year or so, Mr. Sinclair will be liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 or 30 days to a year in jail, or both. If each refusal to testify is considered as a separate offense he would be liable to ten times the penalty. ¶ The new member of the Committee, Senator Spencer, Republican of Missouri, proved a Tartar, carrying the war of words into the Democratic camp and clashing with Senator...
Sometimes the question is asked "How can bucketing be prevented?" One way which will not stop it is light jail sentences for the guilty parties. Any rascal will willingly undergo imprisonment for a few years, with several millions "salted away" somewhere to enjoy after the short ordeal is over...
...Edward Aloysius Rumely went to jail last week for something he didn't do seven years ago. But who is Edward Aloysius Rumely? And what didn...
...Edward Aloysius Rumely-who had been a friend of Roosevelt, and of Henry Ford-M.D., educator, farm machinery manufacturer, went to jail for what he failed...
...seem to require fine character-drawing, and this we have--in the first act. The mystic poet of the soil, Beem Sprattling, seeker after Truth in the subtract, follower of the "Oninvisible and the Onbeheord-of," keen admirer of "this fine pretty world," and frequent tenant of the county jail, is introduced with delightful effect. There are also the native flapper, Goldy, and her dangling swain, Roosh. A pleasing picture of the two old people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent character material. Here also...