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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mr. Hogan: "It was my understanding from what Mr. Jackson said that if all the parties concerned signed the consent decree there would be no indictments by the Milwaukee grand jury." Lawyer Hogan quoted Lawyer Jackson as saying that the jury would be told: "We have accomplished all we wanted you jurors to accomplish and we recommend that you drop your proceedings." Concluded Lawyer Hogan: "Jackson said further that there could be no decree unless all were willing to sign. I was unwilling to sign...
That the finance companies were not entirely innocent of shenanigans appeared, however, with the revelation that they had hired a onetime newshawk named Harry G. Croy to investigate the personnel of the grand jury. Judge Geiger promptly cited him for contempt of court...
Finally, after a day of questioning, hard-boiled Judge Geiger ruled: "It is my judgment that the Department of Justice did not have the power to negotiate with these parties for a consent decree during the pendency of the grand jury inquiry and that it was not proper for the parties to get together to deal on matters that were within the terms of probable indictments. For these reasons, there is nothing for me to do but discharge the grand jury...
Trust-Buster Jackson will now presumably start over again with another grand jury in another Federal district. Meanwhile last week his boss, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, took the matter seriously enough to send a protest to the House Judiciary Committee. Terming the case "not an isolated instance of arbitrary, unjust and unfair conduct on the part of Judge Geiger." Mr. Cummings declared, "this course of conduct is so obstructive to the administration of justice that I could not justify a failure to bring it to your attention...
...lecture was entitled It Has Happened Here. Next month he will repeat his performance in Albuquerque, N. Mex. That same week in Upper Montclair, N. J., Salvador de Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure...