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...time?a thing practically impossible on account of expense. Not even a jury trial is granted. One judge by a simple decision can put a paper out of business indefinitely and if thereafter the publisher prints any defamatory statement, whether true or not, the judge can send him to jail for contempt of court...
Sentence. Judge Burrows decreed a fine of $300. Mrs. Dennett said she would go to jail sooner than pay it. Her friends planned to give her pamphlet to President Hoover, asked help...
...striker's grocery store, tossed out its contents, departed into the darkness-before-dawn, leaving this sign: WE HAVE QUIT YOUR DAMN UNION In their underclothes, National Guardsmen rushed up just in time to arrest the no-longer snoring strikers and lodge them in the Gastonia jail for rioting. Thus did the textile strike in North Carolina (TIME, April 8) become rough last week. The National Textile Workers' Union is a Communist organization. The United Textile Workers' Union is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. A contest for control had flared up between these...
...Parade." Alibi (United Artists) is more credible than most crook pictures. Director Roland West makes it move fast by spacing dialog with pantomime. Chester Morris gives a valid interpretation of a young man who. in the beginning, comes out of jail a gunman, and in the end goes back, still a gunman, because he cannot prove that-he was in the theatre with a policeman's daughter at the moment-when a detective was murdered. Worst shot-prolonged death of the detective. Best sound shot- liquor gurgling out of a carafe...
...racehorses of Harry Ford Sin clair, jail-bound oilman, are not to be barred from Maryland race tracks this year. So announced Chairman James A. Latane of the Maryland Racing Commission, last week. For a time last year Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided...