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...pulpwood, imported chiefly by International Paper Co. through Amtorg Trading Corp. from Archangel (TIME, August 4). His authority: Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits importation of "all goods, wares, articles and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor." His reason: secret evidence that Soviet political prisoners were logging the forests of North Russia. Pressed for details, he would only say: "We haven't gone off half-cocked in this matter...
Both pleaded not guilty, said the $75,000 was given them for documents taken from the Julian files. Both were convicted and await sentence.* If sent to San Quentin, Reporter Lavine may meet convict (formerly) District Attorney Asa Keyes, whom he helped send there as a bribe-taker in the Julian prosecutions (TIME, March 24). If permitted to visit the women's quarters, he may even pay his respects to Hammer Murderess Clara Phillips...
...used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening at 10 o'clock, walk to the corner drug store, toss down a milk shake, Coca Cola or lime phosphate. Once he set Baltimore tongues to wild wagging by escorting Mrs. Willebrandt to the opera. He failed to convict John Philip Hill, flagrantly Wet onetime Congressman, for public home-brewing in Baltimore...
...Watch and Ward" were successful in their efforts to convict Delacey; public condemnation of the methods employed by this organization, self-created to guide the morals of a Commonwealth, was successful in keeping Mr. Delacey from jail. In this one case the society has given ample evidence of its lack of excuse for existence. A sense of justice can in no way condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining...
...Populist he supported William Jennings Bryan, turned definitely away from Democracy to Socialism. As the Socialist candidate for President he got 95,000 votes in 1900, 402,000 votes in 1904, 420,000 in 1908 (the "Red Special" year), 897,000 votes in 1912. As Convict No. 9653 in Atlanta, he received 919.000 presidential votes...