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Governor Ely's investigation of Massachusetts' penal institutions brings again to public view the problem of what is to be done with those who break laws. It is interesting to note that the investigation is warranted in large part by two allegations diametrically opposed in spirit. One charge is that women in Sherborn are made to shovel coal, the other, that men married during their terms are allowed honeymoons from the prison. That is to say, objections are made on the one hand that the system is too cruel, on the other, too kind. It would seem from other reports...
Last week the Rangers and Maple Leafs met for their opener at Toronto. It was a fast, furious game in which oldtime grudges flared up in bumpings, trippings, crashing collisions and penal ties. The Rangers led 3-to-2 when Toronto's Hec Kilrea shot a high one which bounced off Ching Johnson's head into the net. In less than three minutes Toronto's Red Horner fired in the winning goal...
...more confident "grey rats" were already plotting escape. Their chances are better now than when Devil's Island first earned its dread name. In the past year a daring ring of smugglers has earned fat fees by helping 100 prisoners escape from the Isles of Safety and the penal camps on the mainland...
...pornography." The crowd liked Carbo's strong, graceful speaking manner, liked to recall that he had helped lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio Franco; Lawyer Jose Miguel Irizarri, and the professor of penal law at Havana University, Guillermo Portela. The five partitioned the posts of government, each to his own talent: the doctor for Secretary of Public Instruction & Sanitation; the law professor for Secretary of State and Justice; the editor for Secretary of the Interior, War and Navy; the banker for Secretary...
...Observation of our economic life," said he. "has shown that, in the days before the Nazi Party took over power, deeds were committed in industrial circles which, in effect, violated the penal laws and yet were perpetrated without any self-seeking motives...