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...days later, at the Toulon Naval Prison, twelve Communist prisoners, armed mysteriously with picks and other handy tools, broke loose and liberated nearly 100 other prisoners. Marching around the prison they bawled: "Down with the Army!" "Long live Marty...
...Morelos on Wednesday were taken from the chambers of their courtmartial to look briefly into the muzzles of rifles. General Alfredo Rueda Quijano, cavalry commander who sought to lead his troops in rebellion against Calles, waved farewell to three New York reporters in the courtyard of the San Lazaro Prison as the commander of the firing squad dropped...
Indiana's next corruption trial comes next fortnight, featuring Governor Ed. Jackson and friends, indicted last fortnight on charges of trying to bribe Governor Jackson's predecessor, onetime Governor Warren T. McCray. Mr. McCray lately finished a prison term for a financial felony and will be present to testify (TIME, Sept. 19). Pending appeal of his case, Mayor Duvall, still in office, appointed as City Controller Mrs. John L. Duvall. He reasoned that, if he is deprived of his position, or even if he resigns, his wife will succeed the mayor of Indianapolis...
...into donning red pajamas during the second act. Everybody knows what that means. The treaty is signed. Yards of gold braid will probably fool the police into letting it go as polite comedy. Four Walls, believes the hero (who is a product of East Side puddles), do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage. He is a unique gangster, in that even a prison term cannot shake him from his smoky torch of philosophy. When it comes to a showdown and a persistent woman declares in so many words, "marry me or go back to gaol for murder...
...prison the day we were leaving Moscow. There were very few prisoners. The Bolsheviks do not improve the conditions in the prisons, because they do not believe in prisons and do not want to waste money on institutions to be liquidated in the future...