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Senator Copeland looked hopefully toward the chair where Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney was supposed to sit. The chair was there, but Mr. Jurney's cutaway coat, his polka dot necktie and his big purple handkerchief were not to be seen. On his eminence Senator Pittman called aloud...
...customary striped trousers, cutaway and broad-brimmed black felt hat, Chesley W. Jurney, the Senate's portly Sergeant-at-Arms, strolled one day last week up to the Senate Press Gallery. Jauntily twirling his cane, he boomed to the assembled newshawks: "Here's a statement from Bill MacCracken, boys. I just put him in jail...
...with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days in jail, Lawyer Hogan appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which last month refused to void the sentence...
Home for lunch one day last week, Sergeant Jurney answered the telephone, heard Mr. MacCracken offer to meet him at the District of Columbia jail at 3:45 that afternoon. Sergeant Jurney was there on the dot, but not Mr. MacCracken. He drove up at 4 p. m., explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then...
Next morning at the Willard Mr. Brittin, longtime vice president of Northwest Airways, abruptly asked Sergeant Jurney to take him to jail. "I am broke," said he. "My company has fired me. I have decided not to fight further." His attorney amplified: "Col. Brittin feels the necessary effects of the disapproval, and condemnation expressed in the decision of the Senate so completely destroys him and his future that it is idle to try and save anything from the wreck...