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Married. Lieut. John Rockefeller Prentice, 38, grandson of the late John D. Rockefeller; and Abbie Blanche Cantrill. 29, receptionist in the Chicago law office which Prentice left to join the Army; in Scottsboro...
Died. Walter H. Pollak, 53, lawyer who twice obtained review of the Scottsboro trials by the U. S. Supreme Court; of pneumonia; in Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan...
Died. John Crawford Anderson, 76, Chief Justice of Alabama; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala. Lone dissenter on the Alabama Supreme Court in the Scottsboro Case, he doubted that the defendants had received a fair trial...
...company "Co.," is a meticulous, retiring lawyer's lawyer named Walter Pollak. His background: special assignments from such a top-notch reorganization jurist as Judge Robert Patterson in the job of unraveling the I. R. T. He also defended the Scottsboro boys in the U. S. Supreme Court. Relatively free from political complications is Co., really just a set of very complicated books, made to order for bookish Trustee Pollak...
...case was delayed, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that temporary Communism, since discontinued, is not a deportable offense (TIME, April 24). Running the Bridges defense was a lady veteran of the Strecker fight, and of a lot of other celebrated "liberal" cases, notably those of Angelo Herndon, the Scottsboro Boys and John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement...