Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be possible for chemists to synthesize quinine to break up the Dutch-led international monopoly of natural quinine. An easier way was for the U. S. Government to bring the suit. The prosecutors could not subpoena the foreigners. So they confiscated great quantities of quinine stored at Manhattan. To get back the goods the monopolists last week, through their U. S. lawyers, promised to cease their practices in so far as the U. S. was concerned. So the suit was nolled and withdrawn "by consent...
...fashionable season, a wealthy Chicagoan last week repaired to a $65,000 home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
Fifty Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee-50 cents -which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that...
Fifty Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as a witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee- 50 cents-which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that...
...Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot legally enter any of the countries bordering France, which would seem...