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...Supreme Court's order last November for a new "fair" trial for seven Scottsboro (Ala.) Negroes sentenced to death on charges of raping two white girls (TIME, June 22, 1931; Nov. 14, 1932); a change of venue to Decatur. Ala. and a defense motion to quash the indictments on the ground that no Negro had been a member of the indicting grand jury. Editorialized Scottsboro's Jackson County Sentinel last year: "A Negro on a jury in Jackson County would be a curiosity, and curiosities are sometimes embalmed...
With the stench of the law suit getting stronger, with Medical Dean David Linn Edsall getting angrier, with President Lowell getting sadder-the Harvard Corporation, hoping to quash the suit, last week pinned up this notice in the Medical School and School of Public Health: "No member of either of these schools should take out for his own profit, or make any profit on, a patent upon any invention or discovery that affects the health of individuals or the public. That if, to protect the public against misuse of the invention or discovery, it is necessary to control...
...trial one man hung the jury. Last week Assistant State's Attorney Walker Butler asked Judge John Prystalski to quash the case against Gangster McGeoghegan. Judge Prystalski later said he "nearly fell off the bench" with surprise...
Herbert Hoover was induced to enter the Maryland preference primary to quash, once & for all, the nuisance value of Dr. Joseph Irwin France, his only an nounced rival for the presidential nomination. For months Maryland's onetime Senator had been marching up & down the country declaring that in him alone reposed the hope of party victory in November. Not taken seriously by the Hoover forces, he had entered primary after primary, won them by default and was already claiming 153 convention votes...
...hour at Verdun last week. Charges had been made that although millions of francs are being spent on the new monument at Fort Douaumont heroic Verdun dead are not yet properly buried. Pausing only to invite reporters to accompany him, M. Champetier de Ribes took train from Paris to quash this rumor. At Verdun he discovered that not only are thousands "improperly buried," but at least 12,500 are not buried...