Word: maccracken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind closed doors, the Senate had deliberated for six hours on contempt proceedings against William MacCracken Jr., Lewis Hotchkiss Brittin, Harris M. Hanshue, Gilbert L. Givvin. All were charged with removing or permitting to be removed from Air Lobbyist MacCracken's Washington offices correspondence previously subpenaed by the Senate's ocean & airmail contract investigating committee (TIME...
...sorry," said Mr. Jurney, explaining that he could not make the arrest because he had left the warrant in his office safe at the Capitol. Besides the warrant called for delivering Mr. MacCracken "forthwith" before the bar of the Senate and that was now impossible since the Senate was not in session. Mr. Mac-Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand...
...replied Mr. MacCracken...
...MacCracken bringing her husband a pair of pajamas. Mr. Jurney snores. Therefore he and his wife have to occupy separate bed rooms and it was at some discomfort that they managed to put up Mr. MacCracken for the night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from...
Monday morning, however, all were reunited in the court of Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate...