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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...Solicitor Carpenter for the State attempted to show that a fair trial could be had in Gastonia...
Also: David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; Patrick Jay Hurley, Assistant Secretary of War; Frederic A. Tilton, Third Assistant Postmaster General; Charles Evans Hughes Jr., Solicitor-General...
...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Solicitor General Garrett of Georgia proudly announced that he had a "perfect case." Old Mrs. Powers agreed. She said: "There is nothing ahead of me but death...