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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioner Chisolm's remarks in TIME, Aug. 26, regarding CELLS and CRIME, in U. S. are pertinent and logical. Rigid laws are not needed and fail their purpose. Too many laws today make "criminals" out of unoffensive citizens. Under our present system the most law-abiding citizen breaks on the average of 20 laws, and ordinances, each and every 24 hours. Over-crowding of prisons in U. S. is due to large extent to persons being made "criminals" by law, without possessing criminal intents and propensities...
...Sinclair plan is but a symptom of a major movement in the industry: to sell more oil, more cheaply. Master service stations of various types are already erected or projected by Standard Oil of Ohio, Beacon Oil Co., Pierce Petroleum Co., even by Firestone Tire Co. (TIME, Aug. 19). Shell Union Oil Co. recently obtained $40,000,000 by new financing to enlarge its service station outlets...
Having learned three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst-Colyumist Arthur Brisbane put one ear to the ground and wrote: "The Chicago Journal, giving a partial imitation of Alice's Cheshire Cat, will shrink from John Eastman's full size to a tabloid.* The Chicago Daily News, promoting this metamorphosis, should read La Fontaine's fable...
Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle Colette. Colette, who acted Léa in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...
...waiting for me, and Art's mother is waiting for him." So read Lieut, Nick B. Mamer's report to North American Newspaper Alliance of the 115-hour cross-country refueling flight which he and Pilot Art Walker made last fortnight in the Buhl biplane Sun God (TIME, Aug...