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...committee believed, had sold out to rich, reactionary Pittsburghers. A committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature reached the same conclusion. Pitt received its biennial Appropriation from the State with a warning that, unless it reformed, that appropriation would be the last. Two professors traveled to St. Louis last week to plead for Pitt. In effect both bleated: "We're not nearly so black as we used to be." Unconvinced, the rest of the Professors unanimously shoved black Pitt into the pen. In Pittsburgh the news was conveyed to Chancellor Bowman. Said he: "What...
...News Service was led to believe that the Lindberghs had fled simply to escape the approaching tumult over Murderer Hauptmann's execution scheduled for this month. The New York Sun reported that Mrs. Hauptmann had planned to take her child to the Lindberghs' doorstep on Christmas Day, plead for her husband's life. Canvassing of every available Lindbergh relative and associate brought confidential information that the Lindberghs had gone away ''for a three-week Christmas vacation." "until spring," "for a year," "forever...
...length Chief Justice Hughes rose and the Justices filed out of the chamber. Mr. Reed was helped to a private room. A cup of coffee was fetched for him. After 30 minutes he went home and to bed. Next day the Department of Justice announced that Mr. Reed would plead no more in the case of Lee Moor. Instead, a Government brief would be filed with the Court...
Because the cotton came from a bonded warehouse, licensed under a Federal law passed in 1916, white man and Negro were indicted for Federal crimes. Jed Earner pleaded guilty, was sentenced to eight months in jail, was later released when Fred Hastings, who fought the case, got the law declared unconstitutional by a Federal judge. Last week Fred Hastings had famed counsel to plead his case before the top court of the U. S.: ex-Solicitor General James M. Beck...
Jumbo (words & music by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; Billy Rose, producer). Having announced the opening of his show every week since Labor Day, having postponed it ten consecutive times until at last he bought space in the newspapers to plead: "I'll be a dirty name if I'll open Jumbo until it's ready," last week minuscule Billy Rose finally presented in Manhattan's Hippodrome the spectacle that was supposed to be BIGGER THAN A SHOW, BETTER THAN A CIRCUS. First-nighters were provided with a scale by which to judge...