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...placate his nightmare he is stern with unimportant revolutionaries, kind to important ones who may some day rule in his stead. Last week he pardoned Antonio Mendieta Lizaur, 18, nephew of an important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution in Cuba...
...Budapest, Andrew Klopatsko proposed to a wealthy peasant girl, was rejected, shot at her, then at himself, killed neither, went to jail. Released three years later he discovered she was married, set her house afire, went back to prison. Released two years later, he discovered she was a widow, proposed, married...
...indictment of Impostor Harry F.("Mike Romanoff") Gerguson for perjury and illegal entry into the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 2, 9, 23) : a sentence of 90 days in jail and three years on probation; in Manhattan Federal Court...
...There was little violence. The New York Evening Post's Correspondent Albion Ross was punched on the back of the neck for attempting to enter a Jewish store (other U. S. correspondents were not molested). In Hamburg a Jew shot a Nazi officer and was himself killed in jail. In Berlin photographers were ready to snap pictures of people attempting to enter Jewish stores. In Annaberg pickets were ready with stickers to place on the foreheads of shoppers: "We Traitors Bought from Jews." They were little used. Nazi bands played lustily in the public squares to keep the populace...
Henceforth John Doctor may prescribe as much liquor as he pleases for any patient he pleases. But the patient must be bona fide. Otherwise sprightly Mr. Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury, may arrest John Doctor, and stern Mr. Cummings, the Attorney General, may throw him into jail...