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...slashed back Senator Glass, "I think they might be. ... I am not facetious about it; I am serious about it. I do not want to be fined and put in jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing...
Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union...
...four and perhaps eight Negro policemen, was almost killed when a local badman emptied a shotgun into him point blank. Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity until he killed Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb, whose friends, resenting...
...Anthony is divorced, pays alimony-"gladly." Asked last week if he had spent time in alimony jail, he parried politely: "Let's not go into that, shall...
...securities business. Like any good Irish policeman, he would be kind where kindness was called for, harsh where harshness was needed. As to his Wall Street record, Joe Kennedy would get a lusty laugh out of catching one of his old friends off the reservation, gaily clap him in jail if he possibly could...