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Scorchers. Quincy, Mass, police handed out 20 warning tickets to traffic violators last week; told them a second offense would mean a court appearance. Their misdemeanor: speeding on a bicycle at more than 10 miles an hour...
Amendment. In Albany, a bill to make it a misdemeanor to report a fake robbery "to a police officer or any other person" was hastily amended when Senator Lazarus Joseph pointed out that "if I should lose some money in a poker game and explain to my wife I had been robbed, she could put me in jail just to get even...
...campaign biography of Thomas Dewey they knew all this and a good deal more: Dewey's record as District Attorney of New York, with 79% convictions in 3,253 General Sessions Court cases, 14 convictions in first-degree murder cases (six acquittals), 9,703 convictions in 14,063 misdemeanor cases, along with the head lined smashing of the policy ring, the break-up of a prostitution syndicate. Dewey the Racket-Buster drew crowds, but stories, reputation and record told little of Dewey the Presidential Candidate. And to Westerners properly suspicious of the Big City, his record might...
Last week the New York Legislature at Albany voted to make such union discrimination by reason of "race, color or creed" a misdemeanor punishable by fines (up to $500), imprisonment (up to 90 days), and damages payable to the aggrieved. Having asked for such a law himself, labor-loving Governor Lehman was expected to sign it, after the Legislature disposed of final technicalities. Fearful of any & all curbs on unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers...
...Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery, $300; Brother Colin Montgomery, 28, $150; Alex Calvert, 21, $50). Smart Defense Attorney Aubrey G. Weaver spoke for the hunting set when he declaimed that the boys had done "what any red-blooded Virginian* would have done . . ." And that "these...