Word: subpenas
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...book, was merely Pop-Eye's assistant. She takes a liking to him forthwith, accompanies him from the ramshackle 'leggers hideaway where an automobile accident has stranded her to more commodious quarters in a city sporting house. When her respectable suitor calls there to subpena the gangster, Trigger, in a trial for the murder of one of his underlings, Temple tries to leave, shoots Trigger for trying to stop her. When she tells all this on the witness stand, her respectable suitor, who has persuaded her to do so, proves himself to be the most broad-minded cinema...
...last spring on the White House steps after lunching with the President. His antipathy for the La Follette regime dated back to a visit to Madison to protest a tax bill. "These State officials." he said, "heckled me, and I didn't like it. They threatened me with a subpena. I got fighting mad and have been fighting ever since." At Yale (Class of 1924) Candidate Chappie gained publicity as a "radical." In Wisconsin he campaigned lustily in & out of the State as a Republican fundamentalist. He flayed the La Follettes as "political racketeers." He excoriated ambitious Dr. Glenn Frank...
...chief witness, the prosecution's case would collapse. Mrs. Massie, having told the story of her ravishment twice in court, did not want to do so again. Prosecutor Kelley heard she was sailing for the mainland with her husband and mother aboard S. S. Malolo. He got a subpena to detain her. Policeman Dewey Mookini went to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to serve it. She was nowhere to be found. The Press was told she had had a "nervous breakdown...