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...they dig up a charge of passport violation--a charge which is almost a stranger to the courts of law? The question, though a moral one, stands out like a sore thumb. To prove that Browder was treated like any other American citizen, the government will now have to convict all the evaders of passport laws--and there are plenty. It cannot let other offenders pass unnoticed, and still claim that Browder was not a marked...
Sold at auction were the office property and personal belongings of Sing Sing Convict No. 94,835 (ex-Broker Richard Whitney). Items: a $50 custom-made office wastebasket, $2; an L. C. Smith typewriter, $27.50 (sold to the secretary who once used it); pearl studs, $100; office carpet, $46. Total proceeds...
...Universal) adds another to the staggering total of prison breaks screen convicts have made from Hollywood jails. Though "the technical adviser on break scenes" in this film was a paroled former convict, the picture is chiefly interesting because Victor McLaglen plays a warden with a larcenous streak and a guilty conscience; Edward Brophy plays a sly trusty who finds the warden out; and Master Jackie Cooper successfully continues his graduation out of short pants into juveniles...
...postponed definition of his Farm Policy, declared the objectives of his Business Policy. Best lines: "Stop being half way for a sort of creeping socialism and half way for private enterprise. Get down on one side of the fence. ... If any businessman violates the law name him, indict him, convict him, fine him, jail him. But stop bringing the whole of a group into disrepute and discouragement. . . . Admit that excessive public expenditures have to be tapered off gradually. And start doing it. Start just a trend toward solvency...
Aging, grey Convict James Monroe Smith, ex-president of Louisiana State University, who tried suicide by slashing a vein in his foot with a razor blade while he sat in a jail bathtub (TIME, Nov. 27), was given a machete, set to work chopping sugar cane at Louisiana's Angola Prison Farm...