Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington two years ago a Negro named Alfred Scott Aldridge shot and killed a white policeman named Harry J. MacDonald. To defend Aldridge the court appointed James Reilly, 28, who used to be a page in the U. S. Supreme Court. When Lawyer Reilly tried to ask prospective jurors if they were prejudiced against Defendant Aldridge because he was black, the trial judge summarily cut him short, declared his questions were no more proper than would be ones as to whether a talesman liked Irishmen or hated red heads. Negro Aldridge was convicted of murder...
Happy was Lawyer Reilly to win his first Supreme Court case on a far-reaching issue which would establish a precedent throughout the land in black & white murders. Happier still was Alfred Scott Aldridge who, if prosecuted again, will have the right to question every juror on race prejudice...
...Chicago, Ill., Frank E. Scott and Mrs. Laura Scott sued each other for divorce. Charges: he switched lights on & off for four hours, kept her from sleeping; she painted black stripes on his brand new grey suit...
Such was the picture of misery and destitution which one-legged Brand A. Scott, vice president of the West Virginia Mine Workers' Union, last week set before a special Senate committee initiating an inquiry into unemployment insurance. Witness Scott declared that West Virginia miners work under "yellow-dog" contracts which prohibit their joining a labor union on pain of dismissal. Against him, he said, were pending 121 court injunctions to bar him from unionizing in West Virginia coal fields. Said he: "These people live under a state of terrorism. This is forced labor, . . . We want work at an American...
Impressed, the Senate committee forwarded a transcript of the Scott testimony to the Red Cross. Next day Miner Scott repeated his story in person at Red Cross headquarters. There he was told by Vice Chairman James L. Fieser that Red Cross policy is against relief for unemployment growing out of industrial troubles, that Red Cross relief is reserved for natural disasters...