Word: june
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maze of charges and countercharges made by Messrs. Morgan. Morgan & Lilienthal are being delved into by a joint committee headed by Ohio's industrious, gum-chewing Senator Vic Donahey, with $50,000 to spend (TIME, June 6). Because Vic Donahey knows he is not a born inquisitor like such famed Senators as Black, Wheeler, Nye, La Follette and the late Tom Walsh, his committee last week retained a paid inquisitor just as the Senate's Wall Street investigation in 1933-34 hired Lawyer Ferdinand Pecora. The TVA committee's choice: Francis Biddle, 52, a Philadelphia lawyer...
...dead body of James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, lay in a palmetto thicket not a mile from his home in Princeton, Fla. Heavy rains and scorching sun left the body unrecognizable except for the white-&-rose pajamas Skeegie wore when someone took him from his crib (TIME, June 13). But not even a sharp-eyed buzzard found the remains, till late one night last week, a surgeon, a State prosecutor and twelve G-men led by Chief John Edgar Hoover came crashing through the bush with flashlights...
Frank Hague, mayor and boss of Jersey City, testified last week in Federal Court at, Newark in defense of his hardboiled suppression of C. I. O. in his domain (TIME, June 13). His argument: although his ordinance requiring a permit for the distribution of handbills was unconstitutional, his police in seizing handbills from their distributors and ejecting "invaders'" from Jersey City were doing their duty. preserving the peace and protecting such visitors from violence. To demonstrate Jersey City's "Americanism," Boss Hague led a parade of 16,000 National Guardsmen, A. F. of L. Unionists, war veterans...
...week beginning June 18. All times are EDST. All programs subject to change without notice...
...screen writers employed as of June 4, 1938 shall forthwith hold an election to decide whether they want to be represented at their studio by Screen Playwrights or S. W. G. or neither...