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Last week Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, told the House Military Affairs Committee that the Army food rations were lower than those of convicts in Federal prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Army Now | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Not merry, the life of an executioner is often profitable. Robert Elliott executes for the state prisons of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey. He gets $150 per corpse. One day last week he earned $900. Early in the morning, while a crowd cheered, tooted auto horns and exploded flashlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

The public loves generalizations, especially those of a sensational nature. Therefore when the records of the New York State Reformatory for Women indicate fewer prisoners than five years ago, and when male prisons show the opposite trend for the same period the press immediately runs scareheads to the effect that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTER WOMEN? | 11/16/1926 | See Source »

Martyrs Rewarded. In Sept. 1792, the Bishops of Aries, of Beauvais, of Nantes, with priests, deacons, monks, nuns and some laymen of the Church, were butchered in French provincial prisons. This was by invitation of a circular letter, sent to outlying cities by the victorious Paris Commune, anxious to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Trends Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

A glittering new houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Incas | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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