Word: prisoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...
Prosecutor Maurice Milligan declared that Tom Pendergast since 1927 had evaded taxes on $1,240,000, did not ask utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...
...Lenin's greatest mistake"; Stalin, then 38, an editor; Bukharin, a dry, colorless theoretician; Lunacharsky, a dramatist; Dzerzhinsky, a politician-no group seemed so ill-equipped for the tasks before it as Russia's new leaders. All intellectuals, most of them hardened by years of exile and prison, they were masters of history who misread history, who banked on an international revolution that did not occur, and who called in the sonorous and yet biting language of Marx to an unlistening world proletariat. Seizing the Petrograd radio while the war still raged, they broadcast frantically for peace...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
Last week five of the six defendants stood convicted of conspiring to intimidate Editor Ewald into silencing his anti-lottery campaign. Sam B. Powe, Mobile's lottery king and ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to seven years in prison, his fellow conspirators to terms ranging from 18 months to five years. Their convictions will be appealed. Solicitor Chamberlain was acquitted, but resigned two days later. What had happened to honest, courageous, but perverted Editor Ewald, no one in Mobile knew...