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...participate in decisions in which they have a personal interest. This week the Court refused to review, the 75-year prison sentence imposed on Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, affirmed by the Alabama Supreme Court last June. In announcing its decision, the Court noted without comment that onetime Ku Klux Klanner Hugo LaFayette Black "took no part in the consideration and decision...
...police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared a suicide, though his wife called it murder...
...When news that Associate Justice Hugo Black had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan appeared a month ago, the President's only comment was that he would have nothing to say until Justice Black returned from Europe. Last fortnight when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans...
Seen blazing on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Jarvis Street last night was the flery cross of the Ku Klux Klan. Polico and fire departments were notified, and one fire engine soon arrived to quell the flames. The Klaumen, however, had vanished...
...newspaper figure. With little of the understanding of or co-operation toward the press which characterized him when he was making glowing headlines far himself as the Senate's Great Investigator, Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black, whom newspaper investigation had just revealed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. was slipping home from Europe as quietly as possible on the Baltimore Mail Liner City of Norfolk instead of sailing into New York Harbor on the United States Liner Manhattan as he had previously planned...