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...gold by a Federal grand jury. Facing a possible fine of $10,000, which the once rich Thomases could ill afford to pay, or a ten-year prison sentence, she stoutly declared: "I loathe the publicity involved, but there is something beyond my personal preferences-my obligation to test unconstitutional rights as an American citi zen." Her eyes filled with tears as she added, "In this I have my father's complete approval. How he would stand with me if he were able." Not her father, who was once famed Haw ("Silver Dollar") Tabor's lawyer, but Miss...
...court last week, "don't part me and the rat." The judge looked appraisingly at Nodes' pet rat in a cage on the barristers' table, frowned severely at Nodes. Clearing his throat he then did British Justice: "I sentence you, William Nodes, to six months in prison as an incorrigible rogue. The rat will be sent to a good home...
...Lubbe's isolated cell, reread the death sentence of the Supreme Court (TIME, Jan. 1), stated that President von Hindenburg had refused to commute it and told van der Lubbe to make ready for death at dawn. During the night a guillotine was hastily knocked together in the prison courtyard. Meanwhile van der Lubbe, who had written numerous letters from his cell to his family in Leyden, refused to write another after Prosecutor Werner told him he was really going to die.* Just after dawn, Prisoner van der Lubbe was led "without showing the least emotion" out onto...
Other defendants at the Reichstag trial, all of them acquitted, were still held in prison by the Hitler State last week while their relatives waited in dread lest they be confronted at any moment with another Nazi surprise fait accompli...
...present-day Italy, the schools teach that liberals like Mazzini and Cavour are fascists, just fore runners of great Musolini. Such a situation was intolerable to me. After I had spent a month in prison in 1925 for my liberal views, I decided to leave the country...