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...Liberal Party which ruled Puerto Rico for years was largely an academic issue which failed to rouse the drowsy insular population to thought or action. The only violent advocates of independence have been the Nationalists, a small minority party led by Pedro Albizu Campos. Two Nationalists recently assassinated Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week six Puerto Rican policemen and officers were indicted for the murder of the two Riggs murderers, who were mysteriously shot down in the police station when they tried to seize arms after their arrest. Such...
...London, of Malden; James P. O'Connell, of Molrose; Sumner A. Pondleton, of Somerville; Sidney D. Ross, of Lynn; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester; Roger C. Lyndon, of Hingham; Albert Cohen, of Roxbury; Hamilton Q. Dearborn, of Springfield; Leonidas H. Demeter of Boston; Louis J. Dunham, Jr., of Dorchester; Elisha R. Greenhood, Jr., of Wellesley Hills; Charles A. Hill, of Worcester; Joseph Levine, of Dorchester; Philip Levine, of Dorchester; Sotirios Papafrangos, of Springfield; Edward T. Powers, of Boston; Leon N. Satenstein, of Malden; Maurice Steinberg, of Whitman; and Harold R. Taylor, of Somerville...
...prohibiting manufacturers from shipping orders made even before the store had been red-carded. General charge was that Guild members had "conspired" to monopolize the dress industry and to maintain their monopoly by blacklisting recalcitrant retailers and laying heavy penalties on manufacturers who broke the rules. Federal Judge Elisha H. Brewster took the case under advisement...
Motoring home from mass last week with prayer book and rosary in his hands, Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police, heard a shot, gave chase to a man in a car. When police halted the runaway, another Nationalist popped up beside Colonel Riggs's car, shot him thrice, once through his prayer book, once through his chest, once through his head. He died within the hour...
...District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however, Lawyer Elisha Hanson was assigned to urge the freedom-of-the- press angle. His brief substantially followed Lawyer Deutsch's original. So, to everyone's surprise, did Associate Justice George Sutherland's opinion, which threw the Louisiana tax out not on the basis of discrimination but on the basis...