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Died. Theodore Wexler, 19, University of North Carolina premedical student, elder son of Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, New York beerlegger convicted last fortnight of income tax evasion (TIME, Dec. 11); of injuries suffered when the automobile in which he was speeding north to help plead for reduction of his father's sentence, crashed into a fireplug; near Chester...
...their Texas farm; a suspended sentence of ten years on the Shannons' 22-year-old son Armon; sentences of five years on Clifford Skelly and Edward Berman, Minneapolis money passers who handled part of the ransom. George ("Machine Gun") Kelly & his wife Kathryn, who had planned to plead guilty to their part in the kidnapping, changed their minds, entered pleas of not guilty...
...Laboring mothers should not plead with their doctors for a completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...accepted, then mailed the bonds draft attached to a Manhattan bank, received his money long before the broker sniffed a rat. In New York State a seller of hot goods has virtually the same legal status as a thief. But in Minnesota and many another State, the fence can plead ignorance. Thus for years Fence Connolly did a land-office business. He was finally nabbed by U. S. postal authorities in 1931, given a 15-year sentence, but while awaiting the outcome of an appeal died in jail...
...know a great deal must be changed; I know the time is ripe to have it changed." At another he damned stock gambling. Again & again he declared in a dozen different ways how deeply the excesses of 1929 had shaken his faith in the capitalistic system: "We can only plead that we were young and that we were learning, and all experience is a costly experience...