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Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley last July refused to extradite an escaped Georgia chain-gang convict who had been caught running a Boston lottery. He added insult to injury by giving as his reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers last week had his chance for revenge. Lawyers for a Negro barber named Fleming ("Sing") Willis, who had served less than a month of a ten months' sentence for operating an Atlanta lottery, applied for a parole: "Applicant feels that the attitude of Governor Hurley of Massachusetts towards those...
Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...
...long, had a 1,500-h.p. beam engine. On her maiden voyage she encountered a rival boat of the Stonington Line, the Oregon, and in the race that ensued, the Bay State not only passed the other ship easily but added insult by crossing her bow. The Bay State could make the New York-Fall River trip in eleven hours, burning 44 tons of coal. In 1854 she yielded the speed crown to the Metropolis. According to one historian, when the Metropolis was under way "the disturbance in the water through which she was passing was such as to give...
...time has come to protest against scenery and production which are an insult alike to the eye and to the intelligence and which only help to make ridiculous the action of the opera. How may the artistic conscience of the authorities of Covent Garden be stirred...
...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...