Word: penal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anthracite Coal Strike, Haywood Trial, McNamara Case, Loeb-Leopold Trial, Scopes Case brought Darrow fame; did not change his attitude toward the penal code. Much of his work was done with little pay and in the face of public opinion. But when he undertook a case nothing could stop him. He fought for his clients as for his own life...
Prestige (RKO-Pathe) is a tedious hyperbole concerned with Army life in an Indo-Chinese penal colony. Ann Harding suffers the difficulties customary for heroines so situated: her husband (Melvyn Douglas) in his own phrase is "going to pieces." A Negro minion kills the admirer (Adolphe Menjou) with whom she endeavors to escape to Paris. There follows a prison riot in which Douglas redeems his prestige by switching his rebellious charges with a stock-whip. Good shot: the Negro servant looking mournfully at Ann Harding after he has murdered Menjou...
...place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...method by which a convict could "be made a man again" are past. Modern pyschology has found how greatly environment affects character, but these findings accomplish little if not put to some tangible use. America has been troubled by many uprisings of this sort and while they continue the penal system of the nation appears as much a blemish upon the banishers as upon the bannished...
First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...