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Sentenced, Gustav Lindquist, onetime insurance commissioner of Minnesota, and Abraham Karatz, onetime St. Paul lawyer, later a barker at Chicago's Century of Progress; to one to five years in Joliet penitentiary, fines of $1,000 each; for conspiring to loot Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co. (TIME...
Last week newspaper editors had in their hands not one electrocution picture but six, showing progressive stages in the execution of Gerald Thompson, Peoria, Ill. raper and girl-killer in Joliet State Penitentiary, Illinois (TIME, Aug. 12). With one exception, every paper in New York found some reason not to run the pictures. To the Mirror they were "distasteful." The Journal thought they "lacked local interest." The American deemed them "too poor to reproduce." Lone exception was the Daily News, which slipped one into its Sunday rotogravure supplement...
...biggest subsidiaries, Carnegie Steel and Illinois Steel. Together these two giant subsidiaries account for nearly one-third of the total producing capacity of the U. S. Under Carnegie's grimy wing in the Pittsburgh area are the famed Farrell, Duquesne, Edgar Thomson and Homestead Works. Illinois owns the Gary, Joliet and South Works around Chicago. Both turn out a vast and almost identical list of steel products. Yet under U. S. Steel's conservative if not downright antiquated selling system, both have maintained sales offices in identical cities, sometimes not even in the same building...
Said Illinois' Governor Henry Horner after his policeman-chauffeur exceeded the State speed limit of 45 m.p.h. by as much as 25 m.p.h. on a trip from Joliet to Springfield: "I am still an advocate of sane speed laws, but the 45-mile limit merely serves as a check. Our speed . . . was not unsafe...
...trust that the public will be more fully enlightened on the subject of crime, and thereby able to formulate definite policies concerning that important social question." Farther back in the magazine Publisher Theodore Epstein, who runs a printing plant, took a more sensational tack by advertising: "SING SING . . . ALCATRAZ . . . JOLIET . . . SAN QUENTIN. Do these names and others, mean anything to you? A quarter of a million men and women are behind the bars today of Federal, State, County and City jails or reformatories. Their true stories comprise a veritable book of Arabian Nights for romance, adventure, love, excitement, passion, bravery...