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...long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...
...tied up in Caldwell banks when they closed, an angry legislature talked of impeaching Governor Horton. Bankster Caldwell was convicted of fraudulent breach of trust in substituting collateral securities of less than specified value. Higher courts reversed the conviction, however, and Bankster Caldwell has spent not one day in jail. Following this reversal, indictments were quashed. Bankster Caldwell considered himself vindicated...
...withering blast at the News from the gaudy pages of his Post. Instead he marched into court, demanded $200,000 damages for an attempt "to injure and aggrieve Bonfils and to blacken his good name and reputation." Also he requested that the three defendants be "committed to the common jail of the city & county . . . until whatever judgment obtained against them has been paid...
...several offices of the Oklahoma State Capitol, in the prison mess hall and the warden's house. In 1898 Charles Matthew Conrad Maass suspected his wife of putting poison in his breakfast pork and sauerkraut. He fired three charges of buckshot into her. In his 33 years in jail he has painted hundreds of pictures, sold not one. Like Dannemora's artists, he too copies his pictures, sometimes from memory. Called the Mad Artist, he is irrational except for his ability to copy pictures. His subjects include a Resurrection of Christ, a portrait of President Harding and Gains...
...head, shuffles in carpet slippers every morning to the trusty building for breakfast, shuffles back to his studio in an old mule barn to work. He refuses to appear before the clemency board for a pardon. Summoned, he stops jabbering long enough to say he is better off in jail...