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...family . . . seems to us to be a family disgrace, a disgrace to the nation, and a disgrace to the Church of which the family are members and in which they are occasional worshippers. There have been some expressions of pride among Churchmen in having a fellow Churchman, a parish warden and vestryman, and a cathedral trustee, as President. Pride came before a fall. Humiliation has followed. We need another 'new deal...
Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
Announced the Warden of Vassar College: ''A girl may marry and continue her Vassar course if she wishes. She is expected to reside in adormitory unless factors in her particular case make other living arrangements desirable. . . . We do not in general believe in long engagements because of the emotional strain involved...
...took six minutes one afternoon last week for the warden of the North Carolina State Penitentiary at Raleigh to receive the commitment papers of burly Luke Lea and his tall, high-strung son Luke Jr., to change their names to Nos. 29,409 and 29,408, to make them Class B prisoners in vertically striped suits and to clank barred doors on their still jaunty backs...
...marriage took place in the barred cubicle of Warden Merritt's office at the Yonkers jail. Justice of the Peace Albert Fiorillo officiated. Miss Spero was tastefully dressed in a black tailored ensemble and wore a corsage of gardenias. Mr. Slavickas wore the customary striped trousers, the stripes running horizontally instead of vertically...