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Since June 1935, Prosecutor Dewey had brought 52 loan shark and prostitution racketeers to trial, sent every one to prison. But those convictions had been incidental to his major objective. After 18 months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...
...Schultz") Flegenheimer & henchmen. It took the jury less than five hours last week to decide that these excuses were nonsense. It found every defendant guilty on every count, enabling Justice Philip J. McCook to sentence each one, if he so chooses next week, to 200-to-300 years in prison. As the jury foreman called out "Guilty" 182 times, ending their four-year reign of terror, two of the racketeers broke down, were led blubbering from the courtroom...
...Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory-about 30,000 words...
Warden Lawes has been the fatherly director of Sing Sing Prison for 17 years. In all these years the Warden has kept not only a steady hand and an open heart, but a warm and sympathetic literary point of view which produced in 1932 a non-fiction best-seller called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. Not until he collaborated on Chalked Out, however, had Warden Lawes undertaken to rattle the cup dramatically on his 2,500 punks, wolves and right guys...
Lenin's letters begin in 1895, when he was a 25-year-old lawyer and already a fledgling revolutionary. Little less than a year later he writes from a Petersburg prison, awaiting his long journey to three years in Siberia. Krupskaya, arrested later, was allowed to join him there. They were married, but when Lenin's term was up she still had a year to serve. Lenin's first letter to her after their separation is a lengthy dissertation on intraParty politics. When Krupskaya was released she joined Lenin's exile in Europe...