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...questioning, which lasted a majority of the 48 hours, I was told that I was 'chestny chelovyek'-an honest fellow-and that I was to be released. . . . The commandant of the prison actually carried my bag downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Chestny Chelovyek | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...Although I was under prison regime the conditions seemed to me better than those I witnessed once on a visit to Dartmoor. The cell to which I was taken . . . was really a moderately sized room, with table and bed but no chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Chestny Chelovyek | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...almost any meal reveals that fraternity has not thawed the icy rodent heart. In all things a sober, studious tenor is preserved, an anomalous condition which has several causes: many resent the appellation, "Rabbitt"; others are browbeaten by the influence of Mather, which has been aptly likened to a prison yard; but chiefly, there is a pervasive atmosphere of dignified indifference, established by the more mature residents, which, though stultifying, is not without its merits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEVERETT HOUSE | 3/14/1933 | See Source »

Bernard C. McGuire. associate of Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to violating interstate lottery laws in conducting a Loyal Order of Moose lottery in 1930. He was sentenced to a year in prison. Senior Davis' retrial on similar charges was scheduled to take place this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 6, 1933 | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Pleading guilty to four assault charges, Zangara was sentenced to 80 years in prison by Judge E. C. Collins. "Don't be stingy, give me 100 years!" he shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Escape | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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