Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson was tried before...
...asking a court order to restrain Samuel Bazemore of St. Petersburg, Fla. from advertising prices in what is known in the South as "pressing clubs," lower than those in force in that trade area. The Judge refused the order because: 1) only the Federal District Attorney has authority to appeal to the courts for enforcement of the Recovery Act; 2) Samuel Bazemore was admittedly not engaged in interstate commerce and Congress therefore had no constitutional authority to regulate his business; 3) if Congress claims such authority by reason of a "national emergency," that is a pernicious doctrine which would upset...
Meanwhile Austria's nimble little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss had apologized to the German Minister in Vienna for Schumacher's death. Faced with Dictator Hitler's shrewd appeal to the native Germanism of Austrians, Dictator Dollfuss protested that he was doing "everything to bring about swift and complete clarification of this sad occurrence." His preliminary findings showed that Private Schumacher had unwittingly crossed the border...
Last September Hupp Motor Car Corp.'s biggest stockholder, Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, backed a proxy campaign to oust the entire management of Hupp, particularly Directors Charles Hayden and Moritz Rosenthal who are potent in Hupp affairs. The proxy appeal to stockholders said: "It is sufficient ... to point out one record which shows that the president of your company, during two years, drew $250,000 of salary while the company reported losses in excess of $8,000,000. . . . Large stockholders . . . feel that it is about time that the management of the corporation is brought to the realization that...
...President Roosevelt's methods aiming at recovery are of a type which should appeal to Harvard men and indeed to all college men, because they are founded on the strictest scientific principles," was the dictum of Edward A. Filene, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Recovery Board as given to a CRIMSON reporter in a recent interview. "It is under the control of scientific minds of high calibre and it is in the universities that this type of men is to be found...