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...freedom. One of these, William Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...comparison, the famed Black Palace is almost a felon's delight. Colonel Francisco Linares, the warden, boasts that he runs it a la Mexicana, which means nourishing food, little work, the traditional weekly "conjugal visits" to cells by prisoners' wives. But the big Black Palace (official capacity 2,000) is crammed with 4,485 convicts, and 40 new prisoners arrive each day. Occasionally Linares must hold a cuerda a las islas-a roundup for the islands...
...House Without Utility. This might all be understandable, or at least explainable. A little harder to understand was how the variation between $18 billion and $14.3 billion could make so much difference-the difference, perhaps, between the prompt nabbing of an international felon in Mr. Truman's police action and what was actually happening. The money finally budgeted for national defense was no niggling sum; it was one-third of the national budget...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...
Harrison kept right on crusading in his column ("At the Capitol'') in the New Mexican. He has put the finger on an attorney general who was drawing a salary as a corporation lawyef on the side, exposed an unpardoned felon who was serving in the state senate, complained about the potash industry's "free ride" until the legislature tripled its taxes, uncovered a former governor's use of the highway department to pave his private property. Harrison's sarcastic nickname for Governor Mabry, "the first-floor governor"-to distinguish him from Commissioner1 of Revenue...