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...successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME, June...
...pseudonym of Webster Ford because he deeply distrusted the value of this work. A Chicago lawyer of 45, he was fighting a case in the Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting their first extraordinary response. Born in Garnett, Kans., in 1869, he had spent most of his life in Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less as an art to be practiced than as a message...
...luck than bad. In the first round, playing shaky golf, he nosed out an opponent who was even shakier, one up. In the next rounds, while he was playing better, most of the British golfers conceded the best chance of beating him, like Jack McLean, Cyril Tolley and Leslie Garnett, were being eliminated from the tournament. Before the semi-finals he gave his expatriate U.S. opponent, Robert Sweeny, a few hints on putting, then beat him three and two, thus becoming a 1-to-3 favorite to win the tournament...
...separate bed rooms and it was at some discomfort that they managed to put up Mr. MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from his unwelcome guest. For the remainder of the week-end the whereabouts of Sergeant and Mrs. Jurney became...
Monday morning, however, all were reunited in the court of Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate...