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...owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that small merchants and other employers operating under blanket, temporary codes were just as liable to prosecution...
...written confession that he was Mrs. Denston's attacker. Over the protests of the State police, but on the orders of Judge Robert F. Duer and Prosecutor John B. Robins of Somerset County, the accused blackamoor was taken back to the county jail at Princess Anne...
...Eastern Shore three weeks ago to honor the founder of the U. S. Presbyterian Church (TIME, Oct. 16). When he heard the crowd was growing and growing ugly, Governor Ritchie ordered more troopers to the support of the 22 who were already guarding the square-faced little jail. He prepared to call out militia, requested the local American Legion commander to help protect the prisoner. The commander refused...
...pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes to a party where he becomes foolishly involved with his chambermaid (Helen Ford) and his wife (Peggy Wood) whom he ogles without recognizing. The adapters in their effort to oil away the creaks have injected many a laborious 1933 wisecrack. George Meader is going...
...Philadelphia, Negress Maude Roberts gave $60 to "Prince Ali Baba" for a "vanishing powder" so her sister could vanish from a Washington jail, had Prince Ali Baba (one Grant Reid) arrested when she failed to vanish...