Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 had to report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon him to show cause...
...MacCracken was arrested for contempt of Senator Black's Committee before which he had appeared as a balky witness two days prior. In 1926, Mr. MacCracken, a specialist on aviation law, took up his post as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics under Secretary Hoover. In October 1929, he tendered President Hoover his resignation, stayed on in Washington as a lawyer-lobbyist for nearly all the larger air transport companies. From witnesses called during the previous three weeks Senator Black had learned that in May 1930 there had been a meeting of big air line operators in the Post...
...When Mr. MacCracken was subpenaed to tell about that meeting he declined to give the Senate Committee access to his correspondence files. His excuse was that as a lawyer he was bound not to betray the confidence of his air mail clients. At Senator Black's suggestion he agreed to wire his clients for permission to open his files. Two days later he calmly admitted to the Committee that the evening before during a heavy snow storm, Colonel Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, president of Northwest Airways, and Gilbert Givvin, secretary to the President of Western Air Express, had gone...
...William P. MacCracken was not the big fish whom Senator Black was trying to catch in his net. The Big Fish was ex-Postmaster General Brown. Mr. Brown was not summoned, did not appear to testify. Senator Black indicated that he would be glad to question Mr. Brown if Mr. Brown would waive immunity. Mr. Browrn made no move. He remained in Manhattan where he is board chairman of Hudson Tubes, the sub-river line William Gibbs McAdoo built between Manhattan and Jersey City. Other witnesses told the following tale to the Committee...
...What did the Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate do with the body of Mr. MacCracken...