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...TIME, Dec. 2 there was an article concerning the trial of Edith Maxwell. . . . The impression is left that Judge Skeen is a slovenly jurist and that the natives of that section are an illiterate and slightly amusing populace...
...distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because he is six feet six and spare, he looks less like his rotund brother than like that other late great jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...black-haired, 21-year-old schoolmarm named Edith Maxwell testified last week in the courthouse at Wise, Va. that such was the innocent beginning of the fatal night of July 20, 1935. The trial judge, a jurist of 76 with stand-up collar around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed...
Last month, without incident, Kentucky Republicans nominated King Swope, 40-year-old Lexington jurist, to be their candidate for Governor. Simultaneously the State's Democrats saw to it that the Dark & Bloody Ground's tradition for riotous elections did not fade. In the course of their primary balloting one was killed, several injured and the Adjutant General of the State was indicted for marching his militia into Harlan County in violation of a court injunction...
...housing project in Louisville last January, the Court thereby sanctioned the right of any cantankerous or greedy landowner to block a housing project. Owners of 85% of the land desired in Louisville have agreed to sell to the Government. Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, No. 1 U. S. woman jurist, dissented vigorously from the opinion of her male colleagues, argued the Government's right to use its power of eminent domain for any "projects which benefit the health, the morals, and the general welfare of the people." In Washington, PWAdministrator Ickes was undecided about taking the case to the Supreme...