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...husband had been absent from his job for three days. "Absent-absent-these last three clays?" stammered the woman. "But-but-my husband died last year." Case 33: The worker was convicted of robbery last year, sentenced to from two to ten years in the Connecticut State Prison. Concluded the interviewer: "In-asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll." Case 2,490: "Upon being ushered into this man's apartment, a sight greeted me that was not only repulsive but nauseating. Worker himself was in a semi...
...declaring that Barcelona was split into four hostile factions. "The hordes now in charge in Catalonia," he said, "resamble sewer rats come up for air, and I fear it is going to be difficult to get them down into the sewers again, whatever happens. Thousands of convicts liberated from prison roam the streets and some of them have been made 'officials.' In the midst of all this the, authorities are devoting plenty of time to campaigns against religion. The word adios [good-by] is banned as it evokes the name of God. and instead everyone...
...intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
Sued. Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of Alphonse ("Al") Capone, who is serving an eleven-year term in California's Alcatraz Prison for evading income taxes; for evading $51,498.08 income taxes during the period 1926-29; in U. S. District Court, Miami...
...violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...