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...according to a thorough study of Massachusetts ex-convicts.* Three out of four men who once were in jail return there. The causes of original imprisonment were in most cases petty. The prisoners were unlearned in crime. But in reform schools and jails they found good teachers. The urban gangster is usually a reform school graduate, a county jail postgraduate...
Into Warwick will troop some 30 doctors from the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Manhattan. Under direction of Columbia's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye and with the advice of Professor Frederick Tilney (neurologist) and his colleagues, the platoon of doctors will function as a pre-gangster prophylactic unit...
...town as the Countess of Auburn. She finds one daughter's marriage being blocked by the town banker. She asks him to draw up a codicil to her will, leaving the girl an imaginary fortune. That fixes that. She finds the other daughter in love with a lurking gangster. She tries to fix that too. At the same time she arranges a combination swindle and blackmail scheme against the town banker. When she goes back to the penitentiary to save her daughter from the gangster, she does it with a calloused resignation that makes her less the mother than...
While sub-machine-gunners of the Chicago gangster type assassinated the chief of Cuba's Secret Police and two aides who were riding in his car (TIME, July 18) Motorcycle Policeman Felix del Cristo ("Felix of the Christ") hid behind a monumental beacon, neither chased the gangster car nor took its number...
...sides to the Liquor Problem. The Dry Side, the Wet Side and the Right Side! . . . The new Crusader ... is going to make every possible effort to get the old temperance forces to cooperate with him in his present challenge to the speakeasy, the bootlegger, the corrupt politician and the gangster! He believes that when sincere temperance people understand his motives they will back his Crusade, since the principles he stands for are practically the same code of the principles the W. C. T. U. adopted when present-day grey-haired mothers were children in short dresses." Focus. Last week...