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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week Fritz Kuhn heard his sentence: two and a half to five years in prison...
Social scientists have a story about the social scientist who measured the intelligence of convicts in prison. He found it just as high as the intelligence of the civil population, delivered a popular lecture on his finding. A woman in the audience got up and asked him what intelligence was. "Madam," said the scientist loftily, "intelligence is that which these measurements measure...
Astonished by the smitch of dust from their own files, Prosecutor Courtney's lawyers wired Hollywood police to snatch Convict Bioff from his Hollywoodland palace on Santa Monica Boulevard, head him back toward prison. Cried Willie Bioff, now rich and 46: "I made mistakes as a boy. I had to come up the hard way. . . . Pegler . . . goes back 18 years for dirt to smear me with, is running interference for his plutocratic friends in Hollywood who are attacking me because I am fighting for the little fellows in the picture studios...
...troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...
Recalling that the World War had progressed two and one-half years before he was imprisoned "for the conspiracy of opposing American entrance into the war," Browder said that "today, facing the new world war, there are projects under way to send me and others to prison, as preparation for entering...