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...Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff prepared to give it a new twist. In explicit advice...
Plucked from Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay by the deportation order with which President Roosevelt purged Federal prisons of 151 aliens last month (TIME, Aug. 5) was one William Henry Ambrose, onetime Chicago drug peddler. Before he was shipped back to his native England last week Convict Ambrose gave newshawks a first-hand picture of life inside the great, grey fortress-prison reserved for the most dangerous Federal criminals in the land. Excerpts...
...Capone is burning up at the restrictions. He's been in the hole [solitary confinement] several times for talking. But whoever the convict was that said Al was losing his mind over it was absolutely wrong. He's not cracking up. He worked first in the dry cleaning shop and then, I think, in the shoe shop. Now he's been promoted to the library...
...Alcatraz is the nearest to escape-proof that it can be made," concluded Convict Ambrose, who once tunneled his way out of Leavenworth Prison. "It's the toughest pen I've ever seen. The hopelessness of it gets you. Capone feels it. Everybody does. You know you'll never get a parole. There's no chance there for anybody ? only that God-awful silence that gets on your nerves...
...little county seat court of Angleton, Tex., big, fatherly Judge M. S. Munson had on his hands three trials growing out of a murder of a convict by three fellow-convicts within the nearby State Prison Farm. At the outset of the trial of the first prisoner Judge Munson told reporters from the Houston Post, the Houston Press and the Houston Chronicle that they could sit in the courtroom but that their papers must not print any news about the three trials until all were over, on pain of a citation for contempt of court. "These cases are all tried...