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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...
Shortly before 8 p. m., the defendants were brought before the bar of the Senate to hear what a jury of 96 of their peers had decided. With little ceremony, Vice President Garner directed the clerk to "read the resolutions concerning Mr. MacCracken...
...MacCracken, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, longtime secretary of the American Bar Association, heard himself sentenced to ten days in the District jail for contempt...
...Senate." It was also the order of the Senate that Defendant Brittin serve a like term. Mr. Brittin had destroyed some Northwest Airways correspondence. The other two, Western Air Express officials, were purged of contempt because they had later returned to the Senate committee letters taken from the MacCracken office...
...MacCracken's lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had been fruitlessly trying for a week to get his client out of the jurisdiction of the Senate and into the jurisdiction of some court. He now asked for four days in which to enter another habeas corpus plea. Prisoner Brittin's counsel made a similar request. Both were granted and both prisoners, accompanied by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney, clumped off to a second-floor room of the Willard...