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...show that he harbored no hard feelings, the victorious President-elect, General Rafael Trujillo, offered his incarcerated rival the office of Secretary of the Treasury. Haughtily the prisoner refused. "I will not accept the Treasury post," said he, "while I am held in jail on the ridiculous charge that I am a revolutionary. I am not a revolutionist!" And sulky Señor Velasquez sat down in the dank depths of his historic dungeon...
There is sound common sense as well as a notable feeling for fair play expressed in the Transcript editorial of last evening which concludes that "a high sense of justice would seem to admit that Mr. Delacey should not go to jail." In calling upon Governor Allen to exercise his power of executive clemency the Boston paper expresses the sentiment of a large majority of those who have followed the details of the Dunster House Book Shop case...
...members of the Lampoon the occasion can be only one of unrestrained jubilance. For nothing, not even an lbis, could have afforded such splendid publicity for the latest issue of the magazine. The sales should be tremendous, and when the Executive Board comes out of jail it should be able to retire comfortably on the proceeds...
...Bronx County, N. Y., police clapped one Sallen Haten, charged with forgery, into jail. Undismayed. Sallen Haten caused "Situation Wanted" advertisements to appear in newsheets: "Sales analysis, sales promotion and customer's control man, writes effective and productive sales letters and campaigns ... at present awaiting trial in jail...
...purely a Capitalist fight. At Canton. Ohio, in June 1918 he shrilled loudest against the military policies of the U. S.. was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Law, of obstructing the Draft and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. His sentence: ten years in jail which the Supreme Court sustained unanimously in March 1919. First he was comfortably imprisoned at Moundsville. W. Va.. then transferred to Atlanta where he nearly died in confinement. President Harding freed him in December 1921. an old and broken man. He saw his party support Robert Marion La Follette...