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...year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused in Wall Street before its collapse. He had, he discovered, caused a legal battle which would make U. S. banking history whatever the outcome...
...Senators drifted in & out of the Senate Chamber, word went around that the division was going to be close, that a bitter debate was in progress. Senator Borah was credited with making a vigorous speech in favor of conviction. There was a highly involved constitutional debate. Judge Ritter of Florida was a Republican appointed by Calvin Coolidge. Republican Senator Austin of Vermont pointed out that the Constitution says, ". . . all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed...
...third and fourth counts, in which Judge Ritter was charged with practicing law while on the bench, fell even shorter of the necessary two-thirds majority to convict. The fifth count, a charge of failure to report for income tax various sums received, actually produced a majority for acquittal. Still Judge Ritter did not move a muscle...
...always been the naive conviction of this reviewer that nobody could be convicted of murder unless the body had been definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
Next night 300 Lea admirers gathered in Nashville's Noel Hotel to pay tribute to the ex-convict. Said Colonel Lea: "I have been through the Garden of Gethsemane. I have been confronted with the problem of whether to go on or stop living. I had a large amount of insurance on my life . . . which I could mature and thus provide security for my wife and the dearest children who ever lived. I decided to face life and each day to pray to be worthy of the love of my family and the confidence of my friends...