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...Samuel Leibowitz, famed Scottsboro case attorney: "In New York (and this includes Harlem) the ruling would be that the civil marriage had been completed-even though the religious ceremony...
...famed case of the Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will...
...Although Scottsboro, Albertsville and Russellville, which the subsidiary also serves, are negotiating for TVA power, the company last week showed no sign of giving up. "Our customers are sticking with us," it announced, "[we have] a valid franchise in Guntersville which has many years to run." Guntersville was just as set on its course. Although the city's rates are average for systems supplied by TVA (75? for 25 kilowatt-hours a month), 30% lower than Alabama Power's, Mayor Couch was sure that profits from the new plant would be sufficient to retire the bond issue...
...Arkansas peonage charges, the Scottsboro trials, the Herndon case, the Tampa trials...
...customary for U. S. Supreme Court Justices not to participate in decisions in which they have a personal interest. This week the Court refused to review, the 75-year prison sentence imposed on Scottsboro Boy Haywood Patterson, affirmed by the Alabama Supreme Court last June. In announcing its decision, the Court noted without comment that onetime Ku Klux Klanner Hugo LaFayette Black "took no part in the consideration and decision...