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...proceedings drew toward a 4:10 P.M. close, Assistant Attorney General John F. Sonnett was arguing that Federal District Court was right in slapping the $3,510,000 contempt fines on Lewis and the United Mine Workers...
...Matter of Money. With a casual wave the judge indicated that Lewis too could make a statement-about his personal finances, with reference to the amount of his fine, which Sonnett had left up to the court. Lewis said he had a salary of $25,000, a life tenancy in a house in Springfield, IlL. and a house in Alexandria, Va. * but he remarked, acidly, that Sonnett had "lied" in telling the court that he was the sole judge of his expense accounts. (Sonnett said he was merely reading from the U.M.W. constitution...
Expert Witness. The Government's case was argued briefly by young (34), handsome John Sonnett. Once he caused Lewis' lawyers to sit up straight. He quoted what Lewis himself had said about the Krug-Lewis contract, under which the miners had gone back to work after last spring's 59-day strike. Posing with Krug for the newsreels, John had proclaimed: "It settles for the period of Government operation all the questions at issue." Wasn't Lewis going back on that statement when he demanded in October that the Government discuss a new contract-and when...
...Norris-LaGuardia act, Sonnett recalled what onetime Congressman and labor expert Fiorello LaGuardia had said during the 1932 debate: "I do not see," LaGuardia said then, "how in any possible way the United States can be brought in under the provisions...
...York. Most notable prosecutions: the first U.S. wartime sedition case (the "Black Hitler" case) in which five were sent to prison; the first wartime spy case-a New York City ring of nine German-Americans who were sentenced to a total of 132 years in prison. Later, Lawyer Sonnett went into the Navy as a lieutenant commander, spent ten months investigating the Pearl Harbor attack for Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Last week, red-eyed from sleeplessness, he was determined i) to leave John Lewis no chance to argue that he had not had a fair hearing...