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Midnight Mary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is another sample of Hollywood's current investigation of the beneficent effect of penal institutions on their adolescent inmates. Mary (Loretta Young), like Constance Bennett in Bed of Roses and Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man, is an alumna of the reformatory but she has a law-abiding nature. When aiding her accomplice Leo (Ricardo Cortez) to rob a cabaret, she saved a handsome young patrician named Tom Mannering Jr. (Franchot Tone) from being murdered. He rewards her with a job in his law office. She is already affianced to her employer when sent...
...pampered back to economic health while the little independent manufacturer, for whose protection the Anti-Trust laws were first passed, was to become an outlaw. On the surface and in most official explanations voluntary partnerships were called for but deep down in the new law were large penal powers which gave a determined Government the whip hand over the toughest business...
...respectfully call your attention to Sec. 597a of the Penal Code of the State of California which says, "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dock the tail of any horse within the State of California, or to procure the same to be done or to import or bring into this State, any docked horse, etc." This was passed prior...
Article 124: "All Germans have the right to form societies or associations for purposes not contrary to the penal...
Defense counsel, including Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union, put Burns's plump grey mother and preacher brother on the stand for emotional appeal. A penologist testified that Georgia's penal system was "the worst," that Burns would die if returned. Counsel argued that Burns had been led to believe he would get a quick parole if he waived extradition when he returned to the chain gang...