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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when (if they have been good) they converse under guard for 2½ hours. After the prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number have gone "stir crazy." The penal psychology there is to make big shots into little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz...
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...Louis Lindbergh found himself facing a news cameraman he knew and liked-Edward J. Burkhardt of the Post-Dispatch, who is a captain in Lindbergh's old National Guard. The result: the old, smiling, agreeable Lindbergh (see cover...
...comfortably wealthy from returns from his writings, awards for his nights (beginning with a $25,000 award for his flight to Paris, given by Raymond Orteig who died last week-see p. 55), many another source, Lindbergh sees before him the friendly prospect of a normal life in his own country, but between it and him lies the high fence of misunderstanding. To his old friends he is almost unchanged, still direct, cheerful, frank, a little more mature and self-possessed. To the U. S. public before which he cannot appear without growing gawky, from which he instinctively shrinks...
Parliament howled long & loud last month when it first got wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...