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...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
Behind a dignified, sad-eyed man of 63 last week closed the doors of McNeil Island Federal Prison in Puget Sound. His sentence was six years imprisonment, a $2,500 fine. His slim, 43-year-old wife, sentenced to two years and a $500 fine, collapsed in court, was removed to a hospital. Thus ended the swindling career of Seattle's Mr. & Mrs. William Renick, promoters of the Baker Inheritance Associations...
...mainstay of the New York Advertising Club, never seemed to weary of speaking at luncheon clubs and banquets. Did the students of Hobart College, or the Advertisers' Club of Davenport, Iowa, or the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, or the inmates of Welfare Island prison want Mr. Wiley to talk to them? Mr. Wiley would talk. Publicity loving, he had copies of his speeches sent to all the Press. He often went abroad, made many a speech, hobnobbed with many a bigwig, interviewed royalty, had private audience with the Pope. He had six honorary degrees-no fewer than...
...eventually the conflicting problems of his story proved too much for Peter's nerve-torn mind. With Jack, just released from prison, kidnapped and murdered, his wife making radical capital out of his martyrdom, with his racketeer brother Andy's "brain guy" dead and Andy left blustering but defenceless before the gathering wolves of the Los Angeles underworld, Peter fell victim to amnesia and disappeared. By the time Adamic found him again Peter was in no condition to write anything but "finis...
...Ossining, N. Y., hard by famed Sing Sing Prison, Secret Servants pounced on a counterfeiting plant primed to turn out $2,000,000 worth of $10 and $20 bills...