Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When reprints of the Mill & Factory article began to be distributed by Weirton Steel Co. in Weirton and elsewhere last month, one reader who got hopping mad was the NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden. Last week in Washington Chair-man Madden signed an NLRB subpoena ordering Editor Barclay to turn over by Monday to a trial examiner in Steubenville, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Weirton, all the material used in preparation of the offending article including ''communications," written or spoken, that had passed between Editor Barclay, ConoverMast Corp. which publishes Mill & Factory, and some...
After a brief consultation with Conover-Mast's high-powered lawyer, Elisha Hanson, who as counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers' Association is the most vociferous warrior for the Free Press against the New Deal, Editor Barclay announced that he would ignore the subpoena...
...Also a matter of concern to conservatives this week was the refusal of the U. S. Supreme Court to review a lower court decision sustaining the SEC, whose power to subpoena telegrams had been challenged by three Florida concerns-Ryan Florida Corp., Income Royalties Co. and Florida...
...official by the next year, when President Roosevelt sent him to the remote Virgin Islands as a judge. When he mounted the bench Mr. L&233;vitt told native judges who led lonely lives, not to mind if he appeared snobbish. Judge L&233;vitt was soon trying to subpoena Acting Governor Robert Herrick. After that he angrily charged Provisional Governor Lawrence W. Cramer with interference in the court, wrote out his resignation. Frustrated but undaunted, Mr. L&233;vitt returned to the U. S. and his old job in the Department of Justice...
Recommendation: "That the process of subpoena or any other process of the court should never be used to secure preferential admission of any person or spectator; that such abuse of process be punished as contempt...