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Last week the relentless forces of the Federal Government were closer than ever before to an inevitable show-down with Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone. Out on appeal from a six-month sentence for contempt of Federal Court (TIME, March 9), Capone was arrested for Federal income tax evasion, released on $50,000 bond...
...feeling between northern and southern California changes from contempt to hostility whenever there is a State appointment to be made. Last week Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph had to choose a State Director of Social Welfare, a position which carries considerable prestige among the women† of California. Harried by ladies of wealth and prominence in both ends of his commonwealth, unsmiling Governor Rolph had for some time considered appointing two social welfare directors to placate both sections. In the end, however, he took the bull by the horns, gave Mrs. Rheba Crawford Splivalo of San Francisco...
Dismissed, Gangman Capone posed for photographs, smiled happily. Still pending on appeal is his sentence to six months in jail for contempt of Federal court (TIME, March...
...prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody had more contempt than they for the vulgar and outrageous behavior of the militant Suffragettes. Imagine their horror when they heard that Joyce had become one, and had been arrested for making an irruption into the sacred House of Commons. They tried to send her back to Leyden. She ran away. They washed...
...Governor Roosevelt received charges filed against Mayor James John Walker by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Rev. John Haynes Holmes of the City Affairs Committee. The Governor threatened, as chief magistrate of the state, to jail newshawks for contempt if they continued to pester him for a premature decision. With but one allusion to the playboy Mayor's "careless standards of public life," the City Affairs Committee complained that New York's chief executive had been remiss in administering the Departments of Standards & Appeals, Licenses. Health, Hospital, Budget, Docks, in all of which have been scandals or near...