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...also the liberals place on Associate Justice Owen Josephus Roberts, the baby of the Court, who is a mere 59. He was a corporation lawyer in Pennsylvania until President Coolidge put him in charge of the criminal prosecution of the Naval Oil Scandals. He sent Albert Bacon Fall to jail for a year, and made a great public name for himself, to boot. On the Supreme Court, to which President Hoover appointed him in 1930, he has been conservative-he voted with the majority on the Oklahoma Ice case-but he has also been New Dealish, voting with the liberals...
...chevron-striped crossing lanes. In order to restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers (see cut). Other Punch cartoons depicted the predicament of a motorist with a cold whose nose-blowing sounded illegal to a London Bobby (see cut, p. 19); and the instruction given by two parents to their...
...throw me into jail because of my outrages," said the Red Juan, "but you cannot get back at me by doing the same to my wife. Before I was captured I killed her with my own hands...
...those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...
...bleeding petitioner was led away, Rumanian police redoubled their raiding zeal, had 12,000 people in jail by nightfall. Said Bucharest's Chief of Police: "Anyhow, 20 of these suspects have turned out to be engaged in speculating illegally against the Rumanian...