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...While I do not favor "a vengeful exwife" keeping her husband in jail rather than accept an alimony cut, I do sympathize with the case of a woman whose husband, whether or not it is his fault, has ceased to pay her the income agreed upon when they separated...
...supported by men with whom they no longer share their lives. And while admitting the possibility of ex-husbands' reducing their separated wives' allowances from convenience rather than necessity, I thoroughly deplored the legal precedent which had kept 130 men in a New York City jail because they were unable to maintain irate wives...
...total membership of over 4,000,000 men were not given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert Ley, former chemist of the German dye trust and new Nazi chairman of the Committee of Action for the Protection of German Labor. "We are not to be fooled by Socialist foxy tricks," said he. "With the disappearance of the Socialist unions, the Social Democratic party will...
...suit for defamation of character against Adman Bruce Barton by his onetime file clerk Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King (TIME, May 1): dismissal and award of $156 for costs to Mr. Barton in Manhattan Supreme Court. In jail on Barton's charges of attempted extortion, Mrs. King did not appear in court. ¶ To the injuries (broken arm & leg. internal injuries) of Thomas David Schall Jr., 23, son of Minnesota's blind Senator: an award by a Washington jury of $60,000 plus interest against Standard Oil Co. of N. J., whose truck collided with the Schall automobile near...
Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no match for him. Smartest of them is a rowdy sob-sister (Alice White). When she flusters him, Cagney bluntly knocks her down. When a bereaved husband comes to shoot him he hides in the women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert...