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...plead guilty to a somewhat foggy charge, take a five-year prison sentence. Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) turned himself in after his wife sang the song, was convicted of conspiracy to carry stolen securities into the District of Columbia, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth. After leaving prison the second time (he had been sent to Sing Sing for a securities deal in 1912), dapper Jules W. Arndt Stein tried the advertising business in Manhattan, was divorced, remarried, ended up in a Los Angeles air-conditioning firm. Last week he filed suit against Producer Zanuck, Actor...
...utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...
...might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...
...Nicky Arnstein (real name: Jules W. Arndt Stein) also turned himself in, but did not plead guilty. After two trials he was convicted, sentenced to two years in Leavenworth...
...hacks or indigent relatives of Congressmen. Lately some of them have been publicly disgraced. In Washington, a Federal deputy marshal tried last autumn to fix a jury to help the Brothers Warring, rich operators of a numbers racket. In Kansas City, two deputy marshals escorting a prisoner from Fort Leavenworth to Chicago got drunk. Last week Thomas E. Ott, former chief deputy marshal of Washington, D. C., was arrested in Cleveland for embezzlements which brought his discharge last December...