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...point is by no means clear--he was certainly no more guilty than many of his colleagues, none of whom are behind bars as yet. It is also difficult to see just what will be accomplished by hauling Insult back to Chicago for trial, for if he received a prison sentence it would almost surely be a death sentence. The real crime of which Insull is guilty is not of fraudulently manipulating securities but of doing it unsuccessfully; and the energies of the government should not be concentrated on driving a sick man from pillar to post but on remedying...
...Healey's stooges, the Julians, are raising hell in the back of the bus, and character actors fill the remaining seats. The bus is stopped by troopers. At the stops the passengers are carefully scrutinized by policemen searching for Porter who had ingeniously disguised himself by removing his prison clothes on top of the bus and substituting them for the suit of one of the passengers. On we go further west, and it is jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant...
Ominous indeed was the scene at the famed Reichstag Fire Trial when No. 2 Nazi Goring lost his temper and roared at Defendant George Dimitroff: "You'll be sorry yet if I catch you when you get out of prison, you scoundrel!" (TIME, Nov. 13). By a long coincidence it was the dawn of the first anniversary of the Fire last week when Nazi jailers unlocked the underground vaults where still lay three defendants at that trial, all acquitted, all Bulgarians, all Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted...
...Dickens (the original of Mr. Micawber in David Copper field) was at the time a clerk in the navy-pay office at Portsmouth. When Charles was two the family moved to London, where he had two years' schooling before Micawberish bankruptcy overtook his father, landed him in Marshalsea Prison for debt. Nine-year-old Charles had to leave school go to work in a blacking warehouse, tying, trimming, labeling blacking pots. Weekends he visited his parents in their comfortable prison quarters. When a legacy temporarily rescued the family fortunes Charles got another two years of school, and later...
...wealth for the past four years. He never offered charges he could not substantiate. He left town, not because he was a hit and run driver, but because he was ordered away (much laughter) to recover from the strain of three months delving into the frightful conditions of Norfolk, Prison." (Long laughter from the crowd, much clapping and booing...