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...Boston were the first defendants in a wages and hours criminal prosecution. Defendants: Brown's Contract Stitching, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass. Charge: that Brown paid less than 25? an hour, falsified records. Maximum penalties: $10,000 fine for a first offense; $10,000 and six months in prison for a second. Said Elmer Andrews, apprised of the indictment: "The act has teeth in it and the Administration proposes to enforce...
...immediate political effect of winning Tom Dewey New York's Governorship. Last week its political effect was longterm, for Mr. Dewey a vital safety play rather than a touchdown. For old Jimmy Hines, whose attorney, hard-boiled Lloyd Paul Stryker, burst into tears, it meant a possible prison sentence of 25 years unless he appeals successfully...
...them all as fables, quotes a Dr. Carl Liche who claimed to have seen a woman sacrificed, with horrid ceremony, to a "man-eating tree" in Madagascar. A sojourner in Brazil said he saw a tree which attracted monkeys by means of a peculiar odor, hemmed them in a prison of leaves, dropped their bare bones after three days. Centuries ago a very tall tale popped up about a gigantic Death Flower on a South Pacific island which lured human victims inside its fragrant cavern, put them pleasantly to sleep, destroyed them with acid...
...life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory met with little encouragement. Only the trombone teacher, with whom he took a few experimental booping lessons...
...fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks, listening to soap-boxers in the park, his encounter with an old classmate...