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...convicts from holding office. The Minnesota State Constitution does. Shoemaker's seat is now being contested on the ground that his prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed "robber of orphans and widows." Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a "foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S." was backing Cuban revolutionaries in the U. S. He proposed...
...Cologne several Nazis were interrupted while robbing a wealthy old Jew by other Nazis who tore the brown shirts from the Robber Nazis backs, reminded them that Chancellor Hitler has commanded DISCIPLINE (TIME, March 20), restored the old Jew's property, had the shirtless Nazis expelled by local party officials and turned over to the police for what they were: burglars...
...TIME FOR MURDER-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). The curious Mr. Tolfree, a few seconds behind murder, snoops around busily until the killer-robber is found...
...play deals with "some intimate and hitherto unchronicled chapters in the early life of Saint Mara of Trabia," a Croatian woman whose name appears on no church calendar. As the saint. Actress Menken is compelled to choose between a life with a robber called Kristan the Wolf or with a secular gentleman named Josef. The secular gentleman wins out, and toward the close of the play one sees Saint Mara working miracles upon "a man with a twisted foot," "a man with a curved spine" and "a boy with devils"-the latter being Ethel Barrymore's boy John Drew...
...concerned," said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, signing the request for Burns's extradition for two Troup County officers to take North, "he will have to take his medicine like any other highway robber...