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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tried in the state which he has represented in Congress for 17 years, John Wesley Langley, Congressman from Kentucky, was convicted of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws and sentenced to two years in prison. The first public intimation that he was involved in such a case came when a Grand Jury in Chicago, in returning indictments for alleged Veterans' Bureau frauds, mentioned, as a sort of aside, that the cases of two Congressmen ought to be looked into (TIME March 10, 17). Mr. Langley and four others were indicted for a supposed conspiracy formed in 1921 to remove...
...Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
...imprisonment and dismissal from his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. To quote however, Prof. Ralph Barton Perry-"He is respected by oppoments and followers alike as possessing one of the genuinely distinguished and brilliant philosophic minds of the day"-and immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature...
...that hour Mr. McCray came before Judge Anderson for sentence. He had been convicted on ten counts. The Judge sentenced him to five years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine on each count?the last nine of the terms to be served concurrently i. e., 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine...
...Adolphe Tholome was tried for bigamy in a Paris court. Both his wives were present; both pleaded for leniency, urging that Adolphe was a good husband and father. His attorney urged that the bigamist was helping France when she needed babies. The jury condemned him to two years in prison, but recommended his release on the ground that it was his first offense. Dr. Lutembacher, "distinguished French scientist," claimed that he has invented a cardometer capable of distinguishing between true and false love by measuring heart throbs. The invention aroused the intense curiosity of the feminine...