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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Games. In Texarkana, Ark., charged with aggravated assault for severely wounding her husband with a knife, Mrs. Hazel Washington stoutly maintained in court: "We play like that all the time...
Salesman. In Milwaukee, haled into court for peddling toys without a license,, Alvin B. Wolff persuaded the judge to buy three mechanical penguins before he was ordered to get out of town...
...marked change" had come over Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, he told the doctors. The onetime fire-eating chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee was just in no shape, he insisted, to stand trial in federal court on charges that he padded his congressional payroll. Ever since he had been operated on for peptic ulcer, he said, he had suffered from depression, sometimes wept, had phobias about seeing people, driving a car and going to the barbershop...
...question before the court was whether Adolf Schmidt, a German-language instructor who came to the U.S. in 1939, was a man of "good moral character." Applying for U.S. citizenship, Schmidt admitted casually that he had had sexual intercourse with unmarried women "now & then." Schmidt said he saw nothing wrong with that: he was a bachelor, 44 years old, the women were unmarried, and nobody seemed to mind. But the examiner was shocked. Application denied...
Last week in Manhattan the case of Adolf Schmidt was ruled on by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Schmidt's lawyer argued that moral character is not something determined by an immigration examiner but something "that measures up as good among the people of the community in which the party lives...