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Last week Congressman Dyer surrendered all pride in his law. He considered it a failure. He did what few legislators ever do-offered a bill (H.R. 10423) to repeal his earlier handiwork. His reason: U. S. Judges under the Dyer Act are obliged to jail young boys for joyriding in borrowed cars across State lines while big commercially successful car thieves are escaping from U. S. enforcement agents...
...step in that direction by passing a bill (the House had yet to act) providing that no grower could plant more than 60% of his total crop acreage in any one year in cotton, under a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or three months in the county jail. Mississippi does not, however, intend to cut its cotton production singlehanded. Its law would become effective only when other Southern States producing a total of ten million bales should vote to apply a similar restriction to cotton acreage...
Mexico City. Seven Communists, charged with shouting insults at President Ortiz Rubio, were clapped into jail...
...sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this handsomely romantic operetta based on his life. To music by-Rudolph Friml...
Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...