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...keep his profession from extinction, to get his fellow practitioners out of jail, President Werner exhorted his colleagues to give their Bureau $25 each a week for an indefinite period: "Are we so yellow that we are going to let ourselves quietly die off while the medical profession mangles millions of our fellow beings?" For such defense the chiropractors last week contributed exactly nothing...
...whole thing was so smart that der had a $40 fine plastered on him and his bright companions who accompanied him to court lost some of their gimp when Judge Stone told the assembled admirers that the next time it occurred somebody was going to be put in jail. Boston Traveler...
Suspicion into Hate. Among Dictator Primo de Rivera's first acts was to pardon (in 1923) disgraced General Berenguer, then under sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. In 1924 the Dictator again kept the General out of jail, allowed him to spend a pleasant month in a remote Spanish castle in lieu of serving six months in prison, as did several of Berenguer's friends, for the crime of denouncing at a public banquet the Dictature...
...graduation he began the practice of law in New York, becoming interested in politics. In 1916 he was sued for a large amount by an elderly woman who declared he had misused securities she had turned over to him. In connection with this he spent a short while in jail. Afterward, he tried to reenter politics, but unsuccessfully. When the war started he joined the army, being stationed in Georgia, where he was judge advocate of his outfit. He has been seen little in New York since the war and is presumed to live now at a small town...
Though the House obediently passed this legislation without major change, Wets raised their usual cry that Prohibition was responsible for filling the U. S. penitentiaries,* taunted the Drys with their pre-Prohibition claim that the 18th would empty the jails. Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer of Missouri, potent member of the Judiciary Committee, who ten years ago wrote the interstate automobile theft act to break up organized car-stealing, decried the use of his law by judges to jail young violators...