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...Pausing from his potato-peeling in San Quentin prison, Thomas Mooney said that he was convinced that Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California would not grant him the pardon for which Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York went 3,000 mi. to beg last month. "Not a chance," said Prisoner Mooney, on the eve of his sixteenth Christmas behind bars since he and Warren K. Billings were convicted of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade. "Powers of business and politics will dictate Governor Rolph's decision. ... It looks as though I would...
...whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...part in the Beer Putsch Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, served one. Complacent editors thought that that was the end of Hitlerism. So perhaps it would have been but for the Depression. Adolf Hitler gave thousands of young Germans a chance to escape from reality. Hitlerites had uniforms, brass bands, roaring mass meetings, plenty of free beer. In 1930 when Germany had over 3,000,000 unemployed, Hitler had 6,000,000 followers and with 107 delegates controlled the Reichstag's second-largest party...
John Zittenfeld, father of the Zitten-feld Twins, 17, who tried to swim the English Channel two years ago, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for 15 months for obtaining money on forged discount bills. He said that most of the money, more than $58,000, had been used in educating his daughters, financing their swims...
...life of Dostoevsky was closely connected with his work. Epileptic fits, occasional poverty, and a long Siberian exile in a bestial prison camp, made him spasmodically elated or despondent. He discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather...