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...Vallabhai Jhaverbhai Patel is not in a sanatorium in Vienna but in a cell in Yerovda jail where he was Mahatma's companion before the latter's release...
...have to be relied on to raise and lower windowshades. So argued Engineer D. W. Atwater of Westinghouse Lamp Co. in a lecture at New York University fast week advocating a light-control device for schoolrooms. In a metal & glass cabinet affixed to the wall is a photoelectric cell adjusted to snap on the lights when, the sun having gone behind a cloud, the school-room's illumination falls below average intensity. In a special class for weak-eyed pupils in Jersey City, N. J., one Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four...
...that he must get out of jail, even if it meant getting into a coffin. Next morning at exercise he fell into a frenzy. Brought before the prison's acting governor, he was sentenced to three days in solitary confinement. As two guards led him toward the silence cell, he struggled frantically fell injured himself. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. The prison physician affirmed that "the prisoner was a healthy man of average intelligence and sound mind." But Brigadier-General Edward Louis Spears, husband of U.S.-born Novelist Mary Borden, spoke he shocked opinion of many an Englishman...
Once again in Washington the Spanish Ambassador was asked to the State Department, told that the matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...knew once and for all that the pen attracted him far less than penology, the penitentiary, sociology. Returning to Philadelphia to practice his new profession he threw himself into works of public welfare, became a trustee of Eastern Penitentiary. He even arranged to serve a voluntary term in a cell to get a real taste of prison life, but when newshawks discovered the scheme he abandoned it. For three years he worked as assistant district attorney of Philadelphia county, invariably drawing the toughest cases which his chief thought were hopeless...