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...name a committee to inquire into reports of bad moral conditions and cruelty in institutions and foster homes. Some 50 members of Parliament met with him to decide what to do. Magistrate George Reakes of Wallasey shook his fist: "It is no use fining these beasts. We must imprison them before they learn...
...crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career which culminated this week in the soberly splendid scientific romance, Madame Curie. For Hollywood and for Greer Garson, the picture was one of the scariest jobs either had ever undertaken. But, given the fusion of their compensating formulas, success was almost...
...ruled that visiting troops hereafter involved in such cases shall be given suspended sentences. The Judge-President's reasons: 1) it is hard for them to realize the criminal nature of their offense in Natal; 2) temptation is strong in local shebeens (speakeasies); 3) it is undesirable to imprison soldiers needed for fighting the war. Since native offenders are presumed to know the law, they will continue to go to jail...
...Magistrates were authorized to fine ?100, and/or imprison for three months, anyone convicted of destroying cardboard or paper...
...took up the argument recently launched by James Richard Baron Atkin, 74, in one of the most notable dissenting opinions of recent times. Last month Lord Atkin protested against the power of the Home Secretary, under defense legislation, to by-pass the traditional democratic right of habeas corpus and imprison persons at his own discretion, not subject to court interference (TIME...