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...said she was going to present her to the Orsbornes. The philanthropic widow who so admires virility planked down $2,500 more to cover the cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler so that her owners could collect $15,000 insurance, which they...
Last week President Adolph Hirschberg of Philadelphia's Central Labor Union rose to plead: "Don't take the attitude that officers of the A. F. of L. are enemies of the laboring man. Much damage has been caused . . . [by] this rift in the ranks." Snapped Yale Professor Jerome Davis: "The A. F. of L. should never have suspended [Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization] without putting the question to the whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing...
...these accusations frightened and fretful "Dodo" Farnsworth first replied: "It's a lot of hooey." So jittery he could barely stand erect, he finally pulled himself together long enough to be arraigned before a U. S. Commissioner and plead "not guilty." Held in the District of Columbia jail on $10,000 bail for a hearing next week, he disclosed his story...
...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...
...practice of prostitution has been technically licensed by the police for a period .of many years. The women from the 'redlight' district are arraigned before the Magistrates Court once a month and invariably plead guilty. Those charged with being inmates of a house of prostitution pay a fine of $25, those charged with operating a house of prostitution pay $50. The city derives a revenue from this source of approximately $20,000 a year...