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While the gang was getting rid of Sticht, police were questioning the Panther captured at the gas station. He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school. Not one Panther mentioned the murder of Sticht. When they got out in 1949, Werner drew up a constitution for the gang: "Security for all members, adequate living standards, 1,500,000 Deutsche Mark ($357,143) to be amassed by all possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time...
...United States today, the movement to get rid of legal murder is linked to an attempt to make prisons what they should be; rehabilitation institutions to cure the criminally ill. Osborne, Lewis E. Lawes, and Miriam Van Waters the rehabilitation concept opposes the archaic idea that criminals should be punished for punishment's sake...
...change-of-party new administration, the problem of patronage has three elements: 1) getting rid of the patronage appointees of the preceding administration to assure loyalty to the new regime, 2) getting good men to fill the vacant jobs, 3) rewarding the politically faithful to keep the party machinery going for future elections. The three-way problem (which the Republicans have not faced since Harding succeeded Wilson) has slowed down the Eisenhower Administration until GOPoliticos are grumbling impatiently. Last week Dwight Eisenhower moved to solve it by shifting control of patronage from White House Aide Sherman Adams...
After six years of scrimping and saving, going into bankruptcy and buying himself out again, Ashe got rid of his debt. By 1936, he had managed to buy up 59 acres, collect 1,000 students. Then, during the war, the university suddenly began to boom. R.A.F. trainees and G.I.s were sent there by the thousands. After them came hordes of veterans. With a $5,000,000 loan from FHA, Ashe started creating the campus he had always dreamed of. In 1947, he opened the streamlined Memorial Classroom Building-the first real building the university had ever...
...Moreover Mary has been assisted by Emile Gauvreau, once a Macfadden editor, who not only has his own beans to spill about the boss but knows just how to cook Mary's. Mahogany for the Teeth. Mary was 19 when they married; Bernarr was 45. He had already rid himself of two wives' who had proved too brittle to uphold the high Macfadden standards of "divine vitality," so he took no chances with Mary...