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...This is a swell jail!" remarked Seaman Jones. "A lot better than Al Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Ten Years into One Hour | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pepper & Squirt in Thrums | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Moulin, a young Belgian professor, had smuggled into Italy and secretly distributed anti-Fascist leaflets. When for this crime he was sentenced to only two years in jail, Fascists shrugged, "Well, what could the Tribunal do? Our Crown Prince has just married a Belgian" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Sole Exception | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Osteopath Eisiminger was arrested, charged with murder, clapped into jail without bail. In a six-page statement he detailed the operation he had performed on Miss Wyckoff, setting at rest the supposition that the abortion had been attempted by osteopathic manipulation. He said he had not believed Miss Wyckoff was pregnant. Nevertheless, he had performed a curettage (scraping of the walls of the uterus). Fifty-year-old Osteopath Eisiminger remained in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion Ring | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...want ours to be a test case for the nation. Before we give up our right to guide our children's future, we'll go to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smart Smarts | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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