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...copy of the law Mr. Burke considered so exemplary. It read: "A person who willfully and lewdly exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any other place where others are present, or procures another so to expose himself is guilty of a misdemeanor...
...deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later he and ten of his fellow directors were formally charged with a misdemeanor on two counts...
...been feted, fed & flattered by Sir Samuel Hoare. a Secretary of State for India, and Lord Derby at the latter's home (TIME. April 30). According to House of Commons rules, tampering with a witness or exerting pressure to change testimony is a High Crime and Misdemeanor. The House listened gravely to Tory Churchill's charge of bribery-by-belly. instructed its committee on privilege, including Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, to hear the charge...
...High Crime and Misdemeanor that Tory Churchill charged last week was that, before this report was presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...
...George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White: a hysterectomy following an infective abortion. Dr. Ferguson does the operating. Dr. Hochberg (Jean Her-sholt), the surgeon who runs St. George's hospital and considers Dr. Ferguson his most promising interne, persuades Laura Hudson to watch it. Going under ether...