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...when he was colonel of a cavalry regiment, and about to lead his men to repel the British, he stopped long enough to arrest the leaders of a Tory conspiracy and, as justice of the peace, to sentence them to jail...
...best deal with the War and its aftermath. In one is to be seen a very dowdy Woodrow Wilson broadcasting while a little dove exhibits the message "He kept us out of War''; Eugene Debs in jail; the faces of the Rockefellers, J. P. Morgan, Sir Basil Zaharoff, Colonel House, Clemenceau, Tsar Nicholas, the Emperor of Japan, Bernard Baruch; behind them the "Living Death" and other photographic War horrors taken whole from The Horror of It (TIME, March 21, 1932). The other panel shows a row of blue-clad factory girls apparently chained to a stamping machine, nine...
...being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick young socialite (Gene Raymond). She is on hand when her onetime lover (John Halliday) shoots himself. Sent to jail for manslaughter, she reënters the house on 56th Street 20 years later as a lady black-jack dealer, plays cards against a grown daughter who has been taught to think her mother dead. When the daughter (Margaret Lindsay) shoots Peggy's partner (Ricardo Cortez) to avoid paying...
...Please," pleaded an anxious, intelligent-looking man who entered Pasadena. Calif.'s city jail last week, "let me stay here until my memory returns." The officers in charge, accustomed to mental derelicts, concluded that here was an authentic case of amnesia, gave the man harbor. For several minutes his hand hovered over the jail register. Eventually he signed: "Poor Devil...
While gay Spendthrift Ronald Finney remained in jail, not apparently disturbed by the indictments piling up against him. his father was convicted of embezzling $63.000 from Emporia's Fidelity State & Savings Bank. Last week the elder Finney, long revered as (next to William Allen White) Emporia's leading citizen, was denied a new trial and sentenced to from three to 50 years imprisonment on each of twelve indictments, a staggering sentence of from 36 to 600 years in jail...