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...Omaha, wore a huge Willkie button through the Presidential campaign. When Willkie lost, exultant Democrat Abner Tunspall, 35, razzed Forest Gillum mercilessly. One day frantic Forest Gillum turned on his tormentor, cut his throat. Last week Gillum, pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to two years in prison. Said the judge, "He just reached the end of his resistance...
...somewhere near the A-10s, meaning that he had better stop worrying about aluminum and go look for a substitute. Any supplier who ignored the OPM ratings and gave a higher preference to Mr. Reeves might have to pay a fine up to $50,000, spend three years in prison...
...inmate of one of the largest penitentiaries in the world, San Quentin. A horrible prison, through which one sees a stream of faces; solemn, accusing faces, and vacuous, prying faces that twitch and slobber in thrill-sated ecstasy at sight of one who still professes his patriotism...
...Named veteran Careerman Gardiner Howland Shaw, 47, of Boston, Assistant Secretary of State. Shaw, a thin, monastic, handsome bachelor, a Harvardman, joined the Department in 1917. Careerman Shaw has three passions: his job, his religion (he is a Catholic convert), prison reform. An amateur psychiatrist, Shaw became so knowledgeable on prison methods that the Turkish Government once used him as an unofficial adviser on penal institutions, named a hill in Imrali Island penal colony after him. He has been chief of the Near East division (1927-31), Embassy counselor at Istanbul (1930-37), Foreign Service Personnel chief since...
...retaliation could halt growing evidences that French hunger cramps in occupied France were increasing. Food racketeers daily pored over obituary lists in the newspapers, then, while posing as municipal police, collected ration cards from relatives of the dead. Fines as high as 100,000 francs ($2,000) and prison terms of three years could not stamp out food bootleggers...