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...chapter. He looks forward to more enlightened opinions on sexual conduct, believes that the frequency of divorce is a sign of the strength of marriage rather than of its weakness, anticipates a time when it will be recognized that "sexual acts are morally indifferent and no proper objects for penal legislation if nobody is injured by them...
Adapted by Kubec Glasmon (Public Enemy), Horace McCoy and the New York Herald Tribune's onetime crack crime reporter, Joel Sayre, Parole is unlikely to affect the U. S. penal system but it should not disappoint cinemaddicts who like rapid-fire entertainment. Typical shot: Noah Beery Jr., no gorilla-faced "heavy" like his father but a boy-scout type juvenile, receiving a bullet in the back...
...coming year a Nashville lawyer named William R. Manier Jr., who has been an active Rotarian for 20 years. They listened to Amos O. Squire, consulting physician at New York State's Sing Sing Prison, declare: "Only rarely have I known of [Boy] Scouts landing in penal institutions." The Rotarians liked that because they are earnest supporters of boys' organizations. Then the Rotarians debated and tabled a resolution favoring prompt completion of the Inter-American Highway (see p. 44), debated and adopted a resolution "expressing interest" in an international language...
...case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge for a declaratory judgment approving his business. Justice Bonynge wrote a decision which made brisk reading. Excerpts: "The plaintiff operates under an ingeniously devised scheme, deliberately contrived to avoid the pitfalls of the Penal Law. In a word, he sells purchase options upon each dog in a race and, if these are not exercised, buys back such as he may elect at prices determined by him. Strange as it may seem, a considerable number of these options are actually exercised and result in authentic changes...
...employ more men is blamed, in part at least, on the New Deal and its repressive policies toward Business. Administration critics last week were quick to contrast the President's exhortation to industry to absorb more unemployment with his latest tax message in which he recommended a penal levy on corporate surpluses...