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...Bishop Cannon with "aiding and abetting'' her, which if proved makes him equally guilty. Four counts charge mere technical, unwitting violations, implicating the Bishop in the same manner. The remaining two counts charge conspiracy "with divers other persons" to commit the (willful) felony and the (unwitting) misdemeanor...
...Manhattan, indictments on misdemeanor charges were issued against Joseph A. Broderick, State Superintendent of Banks, and 28 officers and directors of defunct Bank of United States. Mr. Broderick was named in three charges of neglect of duty and conspiracy in keeping the bank open. Asked if he would demand Superintendent Broderick's resignation, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "Certainly not, I have every confidence in his complete integrity...
...essential of a problem play is a problem. Since the problem which is the excuse for this picture ceased to exist a long time ago, the play is consistently a bore. It concerns an artist's model who has had an affair with an American in Paris. This misdemeanor makes her very reluctant about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle fat) reappears, the situation requires the obvious...
...McClintock, who planned the traffic systems of Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, not only opposes the setting of any speed limit but declares that driving which impedes traffic should be made a misdemeanor. The recommendations of the committee of which Dr. McClintock is a member, however, fail to include in their report all of the policies set forth by the Harvard professor, who also believes that in many districts existing traffic signals cause so much inconvenience as to render them worse than useless...
...Court acquitted Herr Boess of "misdemeanor," censured him for "incorrect behavior," fined him one month's salary of 3,000 marks ($714). This left him free to retire last week ("because of poor health") and receive for life the handsome pension of a Berlin Ober-Bürgermeister (equivalent to "Lord Mayor"), namely: 30,000 marks ($7,140) a year...