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...pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part in the kidnapping. Suspended sentences or paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted that they were "going to do something that would fix us for life," moved to Salt Lake on relief funds last January...
...contesting the rest. Meantime, he held a succession of night conferences with his bondsmen, who were reported ready to renege on their $3,000,000 obligation on the grounds that Sweitzer had filed false information with them. Important Chicago politicians gave no indication of willingness to rescue reputedly penniless Bob Sweitzer from his financial jam although Sweitzer claimed that he had loaned $100,000 of the missing money to "political friends...
...average less than one bill a year, and served three-quarters of the time as an inconspicuous member of the minority-had given the U. S. at large no high opinion of his abilities. In his home town of Uvalde, fellow Texans who had seen him rise from a penniless young lawyer to a substantial citizen, reputedly worth $1,000,000, thought differently. So did local politicians who realized that he had his Congressional district sewed up so tight that after the first one he never had to make another campaign speech in it. So did national politicians...
...Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices of Citizen Smith...
Cited was an instance in which one of His Majesty's subjects was arrested last year "for using the wrong swing in a public park," sentenced to pay a fine, jailed when he proved penniless. In 1932, the latest year for which Sir John could cite statistics, one-half of all persons jailed in England and Wales were incarcerated for nonpayment...