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...customary for U. S. Supreme Court Justices not to participate in decisions in which they have a personal interest. This week the Court refused to review, the 75-year prison sentence imposed on Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, affirmed by the Alabama Supreme Court last June. In announcing its decision, the Court noted without comment that onetime Ku Klux Klanner Hugo LaFayette Black "took no part in the consideration and decision...
...that Moroccan natives 1,000 strong had risen at Khemisset with knives and guns, were besieging the French garrison which had barricaded itself. Ten planes followed by troops from Rabat forced the Insurrectionists to submit and a French court-martial working at top speed sentenced 70 arrested persons to prison terms of from one to ten years, restored quiet...
...twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions, was cleared, and likewise the live poultry racket, which the notorious "Tootsie" Herbert controlled was broken up. The trucking racket...
...with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history of the Board broke out, resulting in prison terms for two and ruined reputations for several others. Mr. Tobin weathered this storm by declaring that he was ignorant of the whole affair...
...Stillwater, Minn., 1,415 inmates of the State prison, including men who had never heard a radio before, filed into their auditorium to hear a broadcast supplemented by a wall chart, of a game in which Minnesota's Golden Gophers galloped through Michigan...