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...talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons had denied him a seat. One of the severest crises...
...Before one can understand the Mexican situation one must face the problems of Mexico" Frank, Tannenbaum, economist, educator, and prison expert, told a Crimson reporter yesterday. Mr. Tannenbaem had been in Mexico for over a year and returns to lecture on the problems of Mexico with the endorsement of that country's council general. "And before one can understand the relationship between Mexico and Nicaragua one had to understand that all the problems of Mexico are the problems of both Central and south America...
While in the monasteries the doctors studied the effects of diet on segregated men, at Sing Sing (New York state prison, Ossining) where men live under similarly "controlled" conditions, Dr. Amos T. Baker has set up a psychiatric clinic to learn the cause of imprisonment. Each day he will unravel the characters of three men to learn 1) their intelligence. 2) vocational possibilities, 3) future outlook on society. Said Warden Lewis E. Lawes of the project: "Some of the men we have here are pretty smart birds, and I expect some occasionally to put one over on the doctor...
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
...Moscow, in solitary confinement at gloomy Buterka Prison, Ignace Ghabin, sentenced to death last year (but later commuted) because he had served Tsar Nicholas as imperial hangman, died. He had hanged 645 men, many of them "innocent political prisoners" of the 1905 revolution. At executions Mr. Ghabin always wore dress clothes, white gloves, black mask. His pay: $2,500 per annum; $50 bonus per corpse...