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...York was about to change its prison code. Convicts entering Sing Sing on and after July 1 were to be subject to new, stricter parole and commutation rules. In the detention cells of many counties, yeggs and firebugs, stickers and rodmen, auto thieves, foot-pads, forgers and dips were clamoring to plead guilty, waive their defenses, and be let into the big "pen" with all despatch. By the end of the week Sing Sing was crammed like a seaside hotel, its accommodations for 1,540 guests overflowing with 1,561 and more to come. About 1,800, in all, were...
Publication of the new rules caused the unconvicted public to marvel at "compensations" allowed by the old code. Hereafter, prisoners receiving indeterminate sentences ("five to ten" or "ten to fifteen" years) must serve the minimum term named. (Before, if sentenced for "five to ten years," a prisoner might get out in three years and nine months by earning, for "satisfactory work" and good behavior, three months' "compensation" in each of his first four years...
...bring his lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only...
...ridiculous squabble in Manhattan over the morals of the drama is currently reaching a crisis. The fate of the Citizens Play Jury is in the hands of the law. If this body is declared illegal and inoperative, censorship reverts to the old section 1140 of the penal code which makes it a crime to present an obscene, indecent, immoral and impure theatrical production. The flaw in this statute is the fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously...
...What famed phrase will probably be struck from the U. S. immigration code...