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...Declaring: "The Federal Government is assisting local authorities to overcome a hideous gangster. . . . But I get no satisfaction from the reflection that the only way this can be done is for the Federal Government to convict men for failing to pay income taxes on the financial product of crime. . . . Every single State has ample laws that cover such criminality. What is needed is more enforcement of those laws...
...Receiving the famed Indian poet, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. ¶ Announcing that the Treasury Department regulation against imports of convict-made goods was not intended to start a trade conflict with Russia. ¶ Conferring at the White House with Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic Senate floor leader, concerning expeditious passage of relief and appropriations...
...Learned from acrid Chancellor Snowden that in the last six months nobody has accepted his "invitation" to supply the Government with "evidence sustainable in law" that any Soviet produce is being produced by convict or forced labor...
...Washington last week the Treasury Department announced that new regulations have been drafted, with Soviet Russia primarily in mind, to exclude from the U. S. all imports produced by forced or convict labor...
...normal. Robert Blake, his cellmate, also condemned, wrote a magazine article which was made into The Last Mile, a Broadway smash-hit which closed last week after a 36-week run. Great thrill of the play was the prisoner's hoarse repeated cry, "Jones! Oh Jones!" which real Convict Shepard reiterated to appear insane. Two weeks before Convict Shepard's execution it was discovered he had gouged out his eyes...