Word: jaile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bumptious Amadeo Barletta, who is also General Motors' sales manager in the Republic, had broken Trujillo's tobacco monopoly with a U. S.-controlled company. Month ago Trujillo lost patience. He charged Barletta with conspiring to assassinate him, clapped Barletta into jail, canceled his consular credentials by decree, passed a law confiscating the property of conspirators and, though the Dominican Constitution forbids retroactive laws, confiscated Barletta's Dominican Tobacco Co. He also confiscated an automobile of Barletta's, gave it to his Chief of Police...
...John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City's police department last week summoned the president of the American Society...
...Middlebourne (W. Va.) jail, three prisoners stole the home-made fudge that Prisoner John Light's wife had brought him. It poisoned them...
...Ossining at New York's Sing Sing Prison, of 1,371 answers to a questionnaire, only eight convicts said they were in jail because they had been framed by the police, 55 ''declined to go into the matter.'' Warden Lewis E. Lawes said this proved that convicts are becoming more honest...
...Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...