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...York wives were also being shorn of some of their power when Governor Lehman signed four bills effecting the first changes in the State's alimony laws in half a century. Up to last week the New York civil law, as a punitive measure, required a judge to jail a husband who was in default on his payments to his divorced wife. Incarceration was on the technicality of contempt of court-that is, the husband's refusal to pay what the judge had ordered. Whether the husband was able to pay or not made no difference. Once behind...
...jail cell in Poona last week squatted India's most famous man, the wizened little brown man with the big-eared, big-eyed face of a bespectacled lemur: the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. For four months he had been out of the news, drinking goat's milk, spinning cotton on his charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week...
...Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine. (Attorneys found no U. S. precedent involving a woman juror, few sentences so severe for similarly guilty male jurors.) U. S. Circuit and Supreme Courts ruled that she must receive either jail sentence or fine, not both. Last fortnight two St. Paul judges chose jail, ordered...
...Kalama, Wash., Ray Edwards got drunk, drove to the home of L. P. Brown, punched Brown, went to jail, tore up beds, wrecked the stove, ripped out electric fixtures, knocked out the marshal with a stove lid, set the jail afire...
...guests (down to the assistant solicitor of the Department of Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter of the judge who sent Oilman Harry Sinclair to jail. Her assistant is Sydney Sullivan, daughter of arch-Republican Writer Mark Sullivan. On lively Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Herald (Hearst-owned) is the highest-paid society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been...