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...Valverde, Brazil's Fascist Integralistas put on their green shirts under fake naval uniforms and spilled a lot of red blood (mostly their own) trying to take over President Getulio Vargas' Government. They failed, and their leaders were jailed. Several months later, Field Commander Valverde, with the prison guards' connivance, walked out of jail, disappeared...
...participating in civil-disobedience campaigns, leathery old Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi (69), wife and disciple of the Mahatma. has served six prison terms. Last week, as other disciples deserted him (see p. 20), she arrived in Rajkot State to be disobedient again, was arrested for the seventh time...
...what Elma and friends said about Herr Hitler, she reportedly mentioned the duty-free frocks to customs officials. Indicted as smugglers. Burns, Mrs. Lauer and Chapereau pleaded guilty, Jack Benny, another friend, did not. Last week in Manhattan, when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot was that on Gracie's $4.885 worth of jewels (for which her husband paid $2,000, and which she kept), George paid $8,000 fine, duty...
...ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare with his model conduct, Swindler Hatry walked free...
...hardheaded psychiatrists or softhearted laymen realized that: 1) mercy killings now occur in the U. S. at the rate of one a week; 2) mercy killers are almost never convicted; 3) stiffest penalty imposed in recent years was three months in prison.* If a grand jury refuses to indict Louis Greenfield, it will add one more brick to the foundation of unwritten law condoning mercy killings. It will also strengthen the case of euthanasia advocates, headed by Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy. Euthanasiasts decry mercy killings by overwrought relatives, plump for a tightly written law which will...