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...year. Last week President Karl A. Bickel of the United Press, General Manager Kent Cooper of Associated Press, and President Frank E. Mason of International News Service announced their lists, agreed unanimously on only three: Robert Tyre Jones's four-fold golf victories. The Columbus, Ohio, prison fire. The crash of the R-101. The finding of the bodies of Arctic Explorer Andree and his companions, which developed into something of a Hearst scoop (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), headed the list of Hearst's I. N. S. But A. P.'s honest Cooper also placed...
Sober and chastened. General Wallenius and Colonel Kuussaari were dismissed from the army, sentenced to three years in prison...
...also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding him in both posts is Vyacheslav Molotov (real name Scriabine), a squarejawed, pince-nezzed gentleman who looks not unlike the late great Theodore Roosevelt, is chiefly notable as an able newspaperman. In 1911, just out of prison, he helped found Pravda, now the Soviet's official organ...
Recent news stories have illustrated the evils of third degree. On Nov. 26 Joseph Barbado, who had been sent to the death house at Sing Sing prison last December on a third degree confession of murder, was released almost at the eleventh hour. -En. D. A. C.'s Beasley...
Instead of an execution came a meeting of the presidium of the ZIK, the Central Executive Committee or "parliament" of the Soviet Union. The ZIK voted to commute each ten-year prison sentence to five years, each death sentence to ten years imprisonment. Official reason...