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...perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum for the fugitive. But Insull had not reached that asylum, and Mme Couyoumdjoglou had sailed back to Istanbul only to find that her hero, Insull, was inside a Turkish jail waiting deportation...
Elected eleven years ago by a two-thirds majority. Vienna's Socialist Burgomaster Karl Seitz was in jail last week. At the same time a new Burgomaster, for whom not one Viennese had voted, was inducted into office with considerable ceremony in the neo-Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first...
...Warden Clarence Merritt and Deputy Warden Frank Phelan of the Yonkers city jail announce the marriage of their prisoner. Philip Slavickas of 152 Riverdale Avenue, Yonkers, to Miss Isabella Spero of 1252 Sixty-Second Street. Brooklyn...
Asked in Madison. Wis., why she gave up smoking, Anarchist Emma Goldman explained: "The first time I went to jail, they wouldn't give me any tobacco and I found it quite painful to break myself of the habit. Because I was never sure when I would go to jail again I decided I'd better not acquire a need for tobacco again...
...escape the grey monotony of their confinement for crime, the artists, almost to a man, painted outdoor scenes, portraits, religious subjects in loud clashing colors. Only a handful busied themselves with prison themes. Sing Sing's Walter C. Brown had a garish interpretation of his jail's aviary; Michigan State Prison's Convict No. 15870 showed a hunched cellmate, a corner of the jailyard where straw-hatted inmates raked grass. Most arresting was a series of pencil sketches by Sylvia Carlisle of the Reformatory for Women in Framingham, Mass. depicting such routine incidents as The Rising Bell...