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...start. Pennsylvania's Reed for the Republican opposition excoriated the stabilization fund and the power given the Secretary of the Treasury to use it to "stabilize" the government bond market: "It is that dishonest thing, creating an artificial market. . . . When a banker does it we cry 'Jail him!' When the Administration does it we say it's praiseworthy." Delaware's Hastings, using no nicer words, denounced seizure of the Reserve Banks' gold as "legalized robbery." But the very head and front of the opposition was Virginia's Carter Glass...
...police station, Dillinger, identified by fingerprints, growled: "I'll be the laughing stock of the country. How did I know that a hick town police force would ever suspicion me." He and his friends, along with their women folk, Mary Kinder, Opal Long, Anne Martin, were clapped into jail, guarded by 15 armed men while police checked over five machine guns, $26,000 in cash, $12,000 in jewels, six bullet-proof vests, all found in the suspicious luggage. A Justice of the Peace held them in bail of $100,000 each...
...Indiana, Dillinger faced a mandatory death penalty for the murder of Policeman O'Malley. In Ohio, Clark, Makley and Pierpont were wanted for killing Sheriff Jess L. Sarber when they delivered Dillinger from jail. Illinois had a variety of unpleasant charges against the quartet. Hence, they announced that they preferred being extradited to Wisconsin, where only a bank robbery charge awaited them. However a smart Indiana prosecutor swooped into town, extradited Dillinger, loaded him into an airplane and flew him, manacled and guarded by police, back to East Chicago...
...admission Promoter Rice has spent a total of $4,000,000 on lawyers' fees in various attempts to keep out of jail, and his attorneys have included Max D. Steuer and onetime U. S. Senator James Reed.† But in 1928 George Graham Rice was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of Idaho Copper shares and sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years. An additional five-year sentence was suspended on condition that he report regularly to a probation officer after release...
Last spring George Graham Rice arrived in Manhattan, suave, paunchy and in his usual high spirits. On leaving jail he had taken a pauper's oath but reporters found him in a swank 16-room apartment. To a list of 200 names picked at random from among his Idaho Copper stockholders, he sent greetings and asked them if they were "meeting the challenge" of the New Deal. The response to this "feeler" was good...