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This was not the first time that Congress had heard charges against Judge Wilkerson, who won great public acclaim in 1931 by sentencing Al Capone to jail for eleven years. A short time after President Harding made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor...
...reaching" arms control than the mere supervision provided in the 1925 convention. In addition an emergency Administration resolution was introduced in the Senate authorizing the President to embargo the sale of U. S. arms and munitions in the Chaco conflict. A $10,000 fine or two years in jail was made the penalty for violating the embargo. Other Countries stepped into line. Chile, who had just received disturbing news that many of her own retired army officers were being recruited at handsome pay to serve in the Bolivian army, promptly agreed to join the embargo. Argentina righteously insisted that...
...barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
Tatel testified that he had been brutally beaten when he was arrested and that he had been knocked unconscious several times during the course of the afternoon. His mother, Mrs. Tatel, took the stand and declared that when she visited her son, in the jail on the evening of Thursday, May 17 that his face had been beaten to a pulp...
...world's front pages. Last month Henri Rochette a swindler like Stavisky, who, more than a generation ago, bribed his way into high government immunity, cut his throat before his judges in a Paris courtroom and died just after they had sentenced him to three years in jail (TIME, April 16). Complicity in the Rochette scandal was largely the reason for the bitter press campaign which Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro waged against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux. Finally Editor Calmette got hold of a letter that Minister Caillaux had written to the woman who later became...