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...expected that every one of the 34 coaches in the I. C. 4A. field this year will be at the dinner including Ted Meredith, Donald Lippincott, John Paul Jones, Tell Berna, Sabin Carr, John DeWitt, Card Taylor, Allen Hellfrich, Bill Cox, Leroy Brown. Larry Whitney, John Hubbard, Gil Horrax and others...
Declared Oswald F. Schuette, executive secretary of Radio Protective Association (composed of independents) : ". . . The end of the reign of terror ... !" Said Bertram James Grigsby, of Grigsby-Grunow Co. (Majestic Radio): "Extremely gratified. . . ." Press headlines proclaimed: ADMINISTRATION STARTS TRUST-BUSTING CAMPAIGN! But prompt was Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell to deny that there was "occasion for any such campaign." Indeed, the Government's petition in the Radio suit stated: "The defendants . have earnestly contended that they are doing nothing more than . . . authorized...
Such was the startling testimony Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell secretly gave the Senate Judiciary Committee early this month and made public only last week. He had been called before the Committee to discuss the advisability of a Senate investigation of Prohibition. Instead, he talked of prisons. Since last summer's riots, President Hoover has been pressing a $7,000,000 program to increase U. S. prison facilities (TIME, Aug. 19). The House passed a batch of bills to put that construction into motion. The Senate has done nothing. The facts and figures of prison congestion which "General" Mitchell...
Last week Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell rushed to the defense of the Jones Law, vigorously opposed any such change in the classification of liquor violations. He pointed out the "inexactness of definition" in the House bill, explained that "a 'single sale' includes a barrel as well as a pint," warned that such a divison of Prohibition offenses would make it doubly hard for the U. S. to prosecute under the Jones Law. He feared that the effect of such a bill would be to reduce the whole scale of Prohibition penalties. Wrote...
Last week the trial of Lila Jimerson for first-degree murder began in Buffalo. Suddenly the U. S. Government became interested in its ward, the defendant. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell instructed Richard Harkness Templeton, U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, to take over Lila Jimerson's defense in the state court. When Mr. Templeton presented himself, with evident reluctance, at the trial, the state prosecutor, Guy Moore, fairly bellowed his protest...