Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...versus Mally S. Daugherty. The history of the case had only a few salient points. The Senate had appointed a committee to investigate the conduct in office of Harry Daugherty, Attorney General. Believing that evidence which had a bearing on the case might be obtained, the committee issued a subpoena for Mally S. Daugherty, brother of the Attorney General, to come before it bringing certain books and papers. He refused. Meanwhile, the Attorney General resigned. Shortly afterwards, the Senate ordered Mai Daugherty arrested for failing to answer its subpoena. The Southern District Court of Ohio held that he was unlawfully...
...Committee elected a fortnight ago began laying the foundation for its investigation. It granted to counsel for the Attorney General the right to cross-examine witnesses before it, within limits, and to present names of witnesses whom, at its discretion, the Committee might subpoena. When the time comes, the hearings will doubtless...
MISSISSIPPI: Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, ex-governor, was fined $100 and sent to jail for 30 days because he failed to answer a subpoena to appear as a witness in a sensational breach of promise case against the present governor. His sentence was later reduced to ten days and the fine remitted, but meanwhile he announced from jail his candidacy in the next gubernatorial election...
That there is a general and growing dissatisfaction with the American school system goes without saying. Witnesses need no subpoena to testify on that issue. The stand is now occupied by Casper F. Goodrich, a retired Rear Admiral, who computes his parallax from the two fixed points of Professor Sidney Thomas' School at New Haven and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. The Naval Academy is orthodox and oldfashioned; the New Haven School is advanced and experimental. At Professor Thomas' there are no books, but rather wall maps, and mathematical games; no paper pads, but slates. Competition...