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...Same month, this time in Decatur, Ala., bullet-headed Haywood Patterson, leader of the "Scottsboro Boys," was found guilty of rape by a jury that fixed the death penalty. Scrupulous Judge James E. Horton set aside the verdict as unwarranted by the evidence, thereby signed his own political death warrant (TIME, April...
...their graduates in the universities. Here there are no geographical or social bars to their competing with men from every type of school all over the country. Even Fortune admits, however grudgingly, that here students from the leading prep schools stand out more prominently than their comparative numbers warrant...
...statement in full reads: "The College regards the submission of reports or book reviews which are prepared as the result of seminars conducted by outside tutors as a form of dishonesty, to be dealt with as the facts may warrant by Disciplinary action of the Administrative Board...
...legalizing beano games, the Grand Rapids prosecutor decided to allow charity games, stamp out commercial ones. He reversed his stand shortly after Mrs. Girodat sponsored a game with 400 players which netted $110 for the Catholic Daughters of America. He not only had Mrs. Girodat arrested but issued a warrant for one of her morgue employes, who was picked up while attending a burial. In Superior Court the judge directed a verdict of guilty. The jury said no. The judge insisted, imposed a $5 fine and $20 assessment for costs on Mrs. Girodat. Said she: "It's the principle...
...Floyd of Rosedale which he had lost to Governor Olson in a bet on the Iowa-Minnesota football game (TIME, Nov. 18). Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor Olson promptly promised Governor Her ring immunity from extradition if he chose to remain in Minnesota, whereupon Governor Herring countered by pointing out that nobody but the Governor of Iowa could demand that he be extradited...