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...jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with a gangster who pays attention to Miss Sidney, gets rid of his old girl by sending her to jail, vengefully shoots a detective because Miss Sidney marries someone else. She and her husband (Gene Raymond) are convicted of the shooting on circumstantial evidence. The gangster's old girl meets Miss Sidney in jail and tries to help her save her husband from...
...from a grocery store carrying a gunny sack loaded with 19 pints of whiskey (TIME, Nov. 23). Then Judge Spencer heard Mr. Leavitt explain how he had been taking a drink in the rear of the store* when somebody put the sack in his hand, asked him to get rid of it; how he did not know its contents; how he walked out the back door into the arms of Federal agents. Declared Judge Spencer: "I don't believe there's a person in this courtroom who would find this defendant guilty. He did exactly...
...still pushing its own consolidation plan, ordered Pennsylvania to get rid of its Wabash stock. I. C. C.'s plan was to consolidate Wabash and Seaboard Air Line (put in receivership December 1930) into a fifth eastern trunk line to be known as System No. 7. This scheme has pretty well collapsed but the I. C. C. order has not been withdrawn...
...help. Its chairman, Astronomer Samuel Alfred Mitchell of the University of Virginia, reported last week that it had handled 60 new cases this year, an unprecedented increase over last year's 27. Apparent reason: the fact that university heads might use the Depression as an excuse for getting rid of professors who were politically or personally distasteful. Professor Mitchell said he had been "deluged" with requests for investigation of this & that dismissal. This he deplored, as did all present. But Committee A has not been able to put its finger on any specific case of abuse. Most publicized case...
Before he knew what had happened, Mr. Leavitt found himself holding a gunny sack and into his ear a voice ? he thought it was Cliff Dailey's ? was urgently whispering: "Quick! Get rid of this! Out the back...