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...moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked the Senate's concurrence in bills for the relief of John Thomas Simpkin, P. Jean des Garennes, Christopher Cott, Seth B. Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that he had procured the attendance before the Senate of L. H. Brittin, Gilbert Givvin, and Harris M. Hanshue, air company officials accused of taking letters under Senate subpena from the office of their Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME, Feb. 12). But Sergeant Jurney...
Late one afternoon, Chesley W. Jurney, a Texan who, after a generation of service as secretary to Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William...
Then both posed for photographs and Mr. Jurney read the notice of arrest. Being somewhat embarrassed by Mr. MacCracken's body, since the Senate had no jail of its own, Mr. Jurney gladly paroled it in the custody of Mr. Mac-Cracken's attorney, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Oilman Edward L. Doheny...
Vacationing in Paris, Chesley W. Jurney, Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, remarked that he would like to visit the French Senate, said that he also wanted some information for U. S. friends organizing a wine agency. Helpful Leon Douarche of the French Government's wine bureau introduced him to the Senate Wine Commission, several Senators from the wine regions. Next morning Paris newspapers front-paged Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney as the "Secretaire-General of the American Senate, who has been charged by his Government to establish an agency for the importation of French wines, which will...
...after day last week Vice President Garner mounted his Senate rostrum, turtled his chin gravely down into his collar and ordered big-bodied Sergeant-at-arms Chesley W. Jurney to proclaim as follows...