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...District Attorney sought in vain for some more serious motive than the small-town newspaper feud which had been developing since jovial, backslapping, man-of-the-world McCracken went to Alturas three years ago and shortly afterward started his mimeographed daily in opposition to the 42-year-old printed weekly which motherly Mrs. French edits...
...feud had begun harmlessly enough. McCracken in the Mail twitted the Frenches with having failed to pay their light bill, having the current shut off. Once he sent Mrs. French an anonymous letter ridiculing the Plaindealer. She took it to the sheriff. Then one day Mrs. French printed a story about a Mr. & Mrs. McCracken being arrested in Reno on narcotics charges. McCracken retaliated by printing stories of various persons named French being arrested for various crimes. The afternoon before the shooting he printed one about a man named French being hanged as a horse-thief in Montana...
Also, Publisher O'Hara had a chance to pay off some rankling old scores, for back of this realignment of Providence papers lay a long and bitter feud. Last March, a Pawtucket city official threw a Journal camera into the flooded Blackstone River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working...
...good all-round university, Tulane has an illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane...
...down his Dred Scott decision preserving Western territories to slavery despite the will of Congress, a rising Republican named Abraham Lincoln went up & down the land denouncing it, demanding that the President and Congress reverse it, calling for appointment of new, right-thinking Justices. As President, Lincoln carried his feud to the point of ordering an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney...