Word: callahans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he was State's Attorney General, Thomas Edmund Knight Jr. had risen to be Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. The defense soon pointed out that the State constitution forbade a man's holding two public jobs for pay. While Thomas Knight "laughed off" this objection, Judge William Callahan breezily overruled a plea that Knight be barred as special prosecutor at Trial No. 4 at Decatur...
...months since he had last laid a fishy eye on Defendant Patterson and his Yankee counsel. Judge Callahan had not changed much. At the earlier trial he had had to be reminded at the last minute to instruct the jury what to do in case it happened to find Patterson innocent. In much the same spirit he now viewed the first Negroes who had shown up in the Morgan County courthouse since Reconstruction times in the role of possible trial Jurors. As Bibb Graves had promised. Alabama was "going to observe the supreme law of America...
...allow a Negro to participate briefly in such a routine ceremony, and quite another to permit one to serve in the body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor vacantly wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there...
Newshawk Ager met Miss Corio, who in private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...
...Rhode Island Gerry *Herbert 90 of 232 36,308 37,523 Utah *King Colton 75 of 561 8,932 6,425 Vermont Martin *Austin 89 of 248 11,047 16,293 Virginia *Byrd Page 1142 of 1742 84,000 23,000 Wisconsin Callahan Chapple 81 of 2914 3081 3068 * +R. LaFollette 5094 *Incumbent * **Farmer-Labor * +Progressive CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR STATE DEMOCRAT REPUBLICAN California Sinclair Merriam 1675 of 10721 168,481 189,535 Connecticut *Cross Alcorn 81 of 169 231,525 129,881 Idaho Ross Stephan 103, of 792 5544 5083 Iowa Herring Turner...