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...trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann carried the practice to almost unbelievable lengths. A.B.A., convening in Los Angeles last year, withheld indignant comment only because the trial was still sub judice. Last week a special Committee of the Criminal Law Section headed by onetime Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Oscar Hallam, felt free to let off steam...
...Repugnant," cracked Lawyer Hallam at New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman, "was the spectacle of a member of a . . . board of pardons going about searching for evidence . . . indulging in public discussion on the merits of the case established in court, voicing doubts as to the prisoner's guilt, arguing out alleged weaknesses in the State's case, all in advance ... of the termination of the criminal proceeding in court." Denounced were the use of press or cinema cameras and the introduction of broadcasting apparatus in the courtroom, post-trial "vaudeville appearances" by jurors...
...silent in the committee chamber sat Hauptmann's prosecutor, New Jersey's Attorney General David T. Wilentz. When the Hallam report was released to news hawks, A.B.A.'s retiring President William Lynn Ransom, who with Newton Diehl Baker has been trying to convert the Press amicably, exploded: "Unauthorized, irregular, and improper...
Jock Wallace (Warner Baxter) married Mary with a high heart and the assistance, as best man, of his friend Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life...
...what is now County Londonderry, had learned to catch fish in such quantities that they and their families could not eat them all at once. Accordingly they set up what must have been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound of stone 180 ft. long, covering five burial chambers and enclosing a sort of courtyard...