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Never unduly optimistic, British politicians of all three parties seemed to feel that the conference is bound to fail. From the jail in which St. Gandhi sits reports issued recently that he will try to set up in India a "parallel government." If this outlandish scheme is tried, self-appointed Gandhites will try to duplicate all the functions of the Government of India. They already have their own "police" who try and are frequently permitted to keep order at Gandhite mass demonstrations when the regular police find themselves swamped by numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faces West, Faces East | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Crusaders (TIME, Oct. 27), doubled his subscription, fired back at Sunday before a Crusader luncheon at Cleveland: "I have lived here 30 years as a citizen of the United States. . . . Whatever career I have had has been here. ... I have yet to see the inside of a jail. Yet this gentleman [Evangelist Sunday] says that ... all of foreign blood are 'foreigners and dirty crooks'. ... I am disgusted to think that a church would permit such a clown-not a funny clown for the amusement of the children -but a clown like this man, who destroys all the beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...George Hughes May 9 Sherman, Tex. Burned (in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...Whitley (No. 20) is unknown at Rhyne, Ga. On the day before at Rhine, Ga., a mob seized M. C. Wylie, accused of rape, shot him thrice, failed to kill him. He is now recovering in jail at Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

...concerning the delivery of official prison messages. Loeb was put to work again for an unnamed offense. Twice Leo- pold has been placed in solitary confine ment for cooking in his cell. Other times he has worked in the chair factory. Last summer Leopold & Loeb were viewed in their jail by Libby Holman, famed hot-song singer. She knew "Dicky" Loeb in childhood, at a Michigan summer resort. He recognized her and, not allowed to speak, winked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 27, 1930 | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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