Word: subpenas
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...only on the basis of its recommendations, good or bad, will TNEC finally be judged. It assembled more economic data than has ever been available to business management and business theorists before. No private agency, without power of subpena, could hope to get such an authoritative picture of U.S. business. Because of the expense, no Government agency is likely to tackle the job soon again. For years to come, unless World War II makes pre-war economics obsolete, the TNEC study will provide a factual basis on which U.S. business problems will be approached...
...into his hands, Chairman O'Connor naturally was in no mood to share his treasure with his rival. But no sooner had Mr. Hopson begun his testimony before the House Rules Committee (TIME, Aug. 19) than Senator Black tried to steal him. The first attempt to serve a Senate subpena was foiled by Representative O'Connor's agents, who surrounded Witness Hopson as he left the hearing, ganged the Senate process server. Next time Representative O Connor had Witness Hopson on the stand, he found him just as affable as at the first hearing and just as uncommunicative. The chief...
...Hopson left that session one of Senator Black's servers thrust into his hands a subpena ordering him to appear instanter before the Senate Committee. The Senate Committee waited for him all afternoon but he did not appear. That night Sergeant Jurney made the search which ended so surprisingly at the Shoreham. Next day Representative O'Connor and Senator Black were again at swords' points, for it turned out that Mr. Hopson had a good excuse for not appearing before the Senate on the previous afternoon : the House Committee had had him testifying at a secret session. If the Senate...
...Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column runs this legend : "The writer's name and address must be signed, not to be published without consent." Editor Armentrout, a seasoned newspaperman who used to manage the paper...
...Jean des Garennes, Christopher Cott, Seth B. Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that he had procured the attendance before the Senate of L. H. Brittin, Gilbert Givvin, and Harris M. Hanshue, air company officials accused of taking letters under Senate subpena from the office of their Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME, Feb. 12). But Sergeant Jurney had to report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate...