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...union organizer named Lawrence ("Peggy") Dwyer had told how his hotel room was dynamited in 1933, the Committee dramatically produced the men convicted of the dynamiting. Unthank, said swart Chris Patterson, had paid him $100 for the job, $50 per month salary during the ten months he served in prison for it. But, he protested, he had not actually touched off the explosion. He had paid one R. C. Tackett $50 to do that...
...made president emeritus when his four-year term expired. Fond of publicity, Preston Bradley gets it not only by preaching, reviewing books in his pulpit every Wednesday, making speeches nightly-his schedule for paid appearances extends into next March-but by such activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans signed a petition requesting him to seek the Republican mayoralty nomination to run against Mayor Kelly. Dr. Bradley said he preferred to round out 25 years with Peoples Church, from which he has been absent (because of illness) only five Sundays...
Beetle-browed King Harman was exiled by the British Government in 1933 after a reign of eight years on his cold granite island twelve miles north of the Devon coast. His exile was spent in Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he served 18 months for misappropriating the funds of Chosen Corp., Ltd., a holding company for Korean mining stocks. His only previous brush with the law occurred in 1931, when a Devonshire Court fined him ?5 for coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy...
Down at the end of the alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed...
...latest reports to have been joined via Cadiz by another 10,000 Italian troops and Spain's tragedy was still anybody's war, or rather everybody's. Last week in France batches of U. S. citizens attempting sneaks into Spain were being arrested, jailed, faced prison terms up to six months, fines...