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Burly Barbara Lucy Taylor, Long Island's buster of police booths, was given 90 days in jail and a suspended one-year sentence for busting two more in Nassau County in anger after police gave her traffic tickets. The 28-year-old cop-hater served 25 days in jail last year for busting...
Died. Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 78, onetime New Jersey Supreme Court Justice; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A hater of capital punishment, he nevertheless sentenced Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the electric chair for the Lindbergh kidnapping...
...implacable SEC-hater (he likes to call SEC treatment of Wall Street "mental cruelty"), Banker Rea nonetheless was ahead of the more appeasement-minded Stock Exchange on reforms in line with SEC notions of how an exchange should be run-notably on promptly publicizing and summarily punishing violators of Exchange rules (including a former Curb governor). The Curb also took the lead in buying in Exchange memberships, to give the remaining members a bigger share of what business was left. Already 50 seats (10% of total membership) have been bought out and retired...
...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...
...Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to be an admirer of the military theories of General Charles de Gaulle, had become more than ever an old darling of France, and Quisling Pierre Laval was already having enough trouble with the French people...