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...gates of San Quentin prison appeared plump, watery-eyed Mrs. Tom Mooney, to visit her convict-husband. Occasion: their 23rd wedding anniversary, the 16th they have passed together within San Quentin's walls...
Important only in that it plots another point in the life-graph of a curly-headed little girl, Baby, Take a Bow "makes a third-rate farce out of the adventures of a reformed ex-convict (James Dunn), whose daughter (Shirley Temple) unwittingly helps him dispose of a stolen pearl necklace which has been planted in his apartment...
...Labor's blatant Governor Olson, who talks more radically then he acts, easily won renomination with approximately 75,000 more votes than he polled in 1932's primary. Farmer-Labor's softspoken, duck-hunting dentist, Senator Henrik Shipstead, was seeking renomination against Representative Francis ("Only Ex-Convict In Congress") Shoemaker. While the dignified, gentle Farmer-Laborite Senator remained in Washington until Congress adjourned, made no campaign, his obstreperous opponent filled the Minnesota air with sound and fury. On the stump Candidate Shoemaker poured vitriol on everyone within reach. He was arrested in shirtsleeves, swinging a broomstick, during...
...raised a huge campaign fund for Paul von Hindenburg's last reelection (TIME. April 18, 1932) and afterwards kept a large remainder of the fund under circumstances which suggested that it was being held in reserve as a personal political war chest for the President. To arrest and convict Dr. Gereke of malfeasance was one of the Nazis' first acts, but his case has been carried to a higher court in which Son Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg has twice testified as a witness for Dr. Gereke. Well posted observers suspected President von Hindenburg of putting pressure on Chancellor...
...onetime Mayor of New York, he gave lavish parties for visiting notables, made appropriate speeches at prize fights. He always wore high-heeled polished boots (he bought his first pair of shoes last year for $13.87). His administration was nationally criticized in 1932 when he refused to pardon famed Convict Tom Mooney, and in 1933 when he declared he would pardon the lynchers of the kidnap-murderers of Brooke Hart if they were arrested (TIME, Dec. 4). Frank F. Merriam succeeds him as Governor...