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...press and Oklahoma's legislators rose up to fight the Governor. Though a military censorship was placed on several newspapers, the legislators were not so easily controlled. They began moves to assemble the Legislature in order to impeach the Governor for usurpation of authority. Governor Walton threatened to jail them if they...
...Sept. 10) in connection with my remark: 'The people want coal-not resolutions.' " Avery Hopwood ("bedroom man"): "A San Francisco police judge found a producer and nine actors guilty of presenting 'an indecent and obscene representation,' sentenced each to $50 fine or 25 days in jail, on account of certain passages in Getting Gertie's Garter, farce-comedy written by me, played by them. Said the San Francisco Chronicle: 'The cry of "Unclean! Unclean!" was raised today...
Crown Prosecutor R. B. Graham of Winnipeg advocated " a spanking machine, which would have instruments varying from a broad paddle to a cat-of-nine-tails and so geared as to be administered with different degrees of severity ... to take the place of jail sentences for first offenders under the Criminal Code...
...were necessary. The bonded indebtedness of the islands at the end of 1922 was 143,920,000 pesos, of which 135,500,000 pesos were obligations of the Insular Government (the rest provincial and municipal). ¶ The former President and three other officials of the National Bank are in jail. ¶ By stringent economies Government expenses have been reduced (figures in pesos) : Receipts Expenditures 1922 61,000,000 79,000,000 1923 66,302,560 † 65,677,327†. About 2,500,000 pesos of the Government expenditure in 1922 went into the enterprises (sugar, oil, coal, tobacco) which...
...more than four rounds unless the balance forthcame. This sulkiness prompted more than 10,000 Indianapolitans (already infuriated by Governor McCray's decree that the go must be a gentle exhibition) to surge about the ring demanding satisfaction. Their Mayor, Lew Shank, clambered to the platform threatening jail for boxers and promoters if ten rounds were not fought. Firpo reconsidered, toyed with Downey for three rounds. Then he remembered his deficit and forgot the state law against roughness. He pounded Downey into a state of collapse, and. vowing legal vengeance upon false Jack Druley, left for his Atlantic City...