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...Gothic Prison...
...Jefferson City, Mo. Attorney General Roy McKittrick ruled that the famed MPAYBE "Movie Quiz" was a lottery, advised Missouri theatre owners who wished to avoid the chance of going to prison for from two to five years to avoid participating...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
...been Scandal No. 1 in Leftist Spain, there has also been the affair of Malaga. The Leftist commander of the defenses of this rich Mediterranean port-taken in February 1937 by the Spanish Rightists with great swiftness and ease-was Colonel José Villalba, who has been sitting in prison ever since. He was suddenly put on trial last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain was the Chief of the General Staff of Leftist...
...young Lord Alfred Douglas has aroused the furious opposition of Douglas' father, the Marquis of Queensberry. Soon Queensberry has goaded Wilde into suing him for libel; the suit is lost and Wilde at once brought to trial on charges of pederasty. He is found guilty and sent to prison for two years. Some time after his release he goes to Paris, wearing out his life in drink, a pitiable but unreformed and unrepentant...