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...county jail for a year last week went one of Scranton, Pa.'s most wealthy and politically potent citizens. He was Edmund Beson Jermyn, scion of one of those old Scranton families whose farms were found to cover coal. Now more than 60, he had respectably acquired banks, hotels, real estate. Twice (1914-18, 1926-30) he was mayor of Scranton. The citizens were proud of him, suspected nothing until his last year in office when ugly stories of graft and corruption began to seep from City Hall. A grand jury investigated, found that racketeers were paying City Hall...
...Jury would soon inquire into the Black Shirts. Basis of the investigation: charges that "Facist" committees had called on Atlanta employers of Negroes, ordered them, under threats of violence, to discharge their black help and hire jobless Black Shirts, in violation of a Federal statute providing ten years in jail and a $5,000 fine for persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws...
Hero Cerro. Once in -jail, Augusto Leguia was quickly forgotten by the Peruvian man-in-the-street. Hero of the week, cheered to the echo on his every appearance was the President of the Junta, Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro, in many ways an even more spectacular figure than deposed Dictator Leguia. If five-foot-three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against...
...January 1914, he went into receivership. Then there arose one of the great scandals of that time. Merchant Siegel was shown to have used funds on deposit with him, to have so falsified his books that expert accountants despaired of ever unravelling them. The next year he went to jail and wept when, because of the smallness of his stature, he was measured for a special suit of prison gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving...
Wrote Editor Howard: "It had been our boast that . . . few Scripps-Howard editors had gone to jail and [none] . . . to Congress. . . . Broun's nomination constituted a threat. But a hasty survey is reassuring. In the last election the Socialist candidate in the 17th District polled some 1,600 out of something over 60,000* votes cast. . . . That Broun is running on a so-called Socialist ticket seems ... of no importance. The Telegram is opposed to Marxian Socialism ... as unsound and impractical. But . . . the Telegram has no fear of the 'mercerized' socialism of independent thinkers of the type of Norman Thomas...