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...friend has just given me your version of the Prison Episode. I am quite surprised at your unfairness. The terms you use, and the angle you viewed, agree with a certain anonymous threat from Springfield, Mo. My friend demanded that I write you, though, for he claims that your magazine endeavors to be fair and play the game square...
That statement convicted Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, of bribery. It branded him as the first felon in a President's Cabinet in U. S. history. It made him liable to a three-year prison sentence, a $300,000 fine.* It changed the $100,000 in cash sent Fall in a little black bag by Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny from an innocent "loan" between old friends to a corrupt and criminal payment to influence the Secretary of the Interior to lease U. S. Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 at Elk Hills. Cal., to Doheny...
Convicted. Alexander Pantages, vaudeville circuit owner; of criminal assault upon one Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer; in Los Angeles. Sentence: one to 50 years' imprisonment in San Quentin Prison, with clemency recommended. Mrs. Pantages was convicted last month on a manslaughter charge...
...ribs. Whips fall in time with the brisk beating of a drum. Sonorously War Minister Julius Goembos read out to Parliament the preamble to his flogging bill: ". . . Whereas the penalty of imprisonment completely failed of effect in wartime, as the soldiers preferred a well-warmed prison to the discomforts of the trenches, now therefore. . . ." They will be flogged for offenses punished at present by prison sentences ranging up to ten years...
Judge Barnhill sentenced Beal and the three other northern defendants to serve from 17 to 20 years in State's Prison. The Southerners, considered less culpable, received smaller terms. The defense planned an appeal...