Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew W. Mellon (TIME, March 11, 1935). Last week Lawyer Hogan marched into District of Columbia Supreme Court, charged that the Black Committee had instituted an unconstitutional "inquisitorial investigation and fishing expedition" into his client's private affairs, got a temporary injunction restraining Western Union from handing over the Strawn telegrams...
...twelve others: eight Federal judges, one Senator (William Blount of Tennessee, 1797), one Secretary of War (William W. Balknap, 1876), one Justice of the Supreme Court (Samuel Chase, 1804), one President (Andrew Johnson, 1868). Three judges were convicted and removed from office. One resigned before trial. One was not prosecuted. The Senator's case was dismissed "for want of jurisdiction." All the others were acquitted...
...SOVIET WORKER - Andrew Smith- Dutton ($3). A U. S. Communist, employed for five years in an electrical equipment factory at Leningrad, tells of his disillusionment with the Stalin regime. Completely one-sided, the book relates incident after incident to show that Russian workers are not paid enough to live on, that Russian industries are shame fully disorganized and inefficient...
...Andrew Ross tells the story of his life to an old author who believes he is the young man best fitted to meet life and wants to write a book around him. Andy begins with his first childish recollections, which are handled intelligently by the author. Dr. Ross is a country doctor and an extraordinarily understanding father, while his wife is devoted to them both but has all the maternal worries that tradition ascribes to mothers...
...grows older he becomes acquainted with the problems of puberty and sex, but passes through this period with little difficulty because of his father's frank advice. The puppy-love stage is treated with all the seriousness it deserves and when Andrew falls from grace at the rather tender age of 16 he is orientated by his father and helped rather than hurt. This close understanding of father and son is present throughout the volume in almost too perfect harmony, but Marks appears to be looking back and seeing how the situation should have been...