Word: mcmahon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did smart, swart Assistant U. S. Attorney General Brien McMahon and his corps of helping lawyers and investigators from Washington learn something last week about the dignity and ignorance of Kentucky's rural poor. The lesson was equally onerous for young Mr. McMahon and for defense counsel, who included former Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson of Louisville and Alabama Utilities Attorney Forney Johnston. Thanks to a remarkable prevalence of sickness among talesmen's womenfolk, and the paucity of southeastern Kentuckians who were not in some fashion dependent upon the soft coal industry, the lawyers questioned and discarded...
...case of U. S. v. Mary-Helen Coal Co., et al., fully deserved the intervention of able Mr. McMahon and distinguished Mr. Johnston. For at issue was the repute of Harlan County's coal barons and deputized thugs, whose propensities for murder, assault, and general repression of miners' tendency to join John L. Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce...
This week Mr. McMahon seemed to be getting on remarkably well. Clover Splint Coal Company withdrew its plea of not guilty and entered a plea of nolo contendere (admitting no guilt but declining to make a defense...
Bernard J. McMahon, Jr. -- Miss Virginia Leach, Winthrop...
...clock will come the Sanders Theatre exercises, to which the Seniors will also march in a body. Prayer will be offered by Professor E. C. Moore, and the oration by Daniel Sargent, the poem by Amos Philip McMahon, and the ode by William Roger Burlingame will be delivered...