Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never made any such unwarranted and high-handed proposal," cried Miss Perkins, maintaining that she merely urged the Government to use the power of subpoena to bring about a face-to-face conference...
...theatre- For this there was good reason. The prints were held by Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. So highly did the young Wisconsin Senator value the reel as evidence in the Committee's investigation of the Memorial Day riot that he defied a subpoena for the film voted by the Senate Post Office Committee, which is pondering a general steel strike investigation...
...fine or six months' imprisonment or both. Goods made contrary to the Board's rulings may not be trafficked interstate. The Board can require every employer to maintain special personnel and wages & hours records, has access to his business and records at any time, can subpoena witnesses and records anywhere in the U. S. The Board can require that goods or containers be specially labeled. All contracts made contrary to the Act or the Board's ruling are void...
...much of it partakes of the nature of this remark, which turns up in the midst of some supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful. Ann Sothern (the escaping heiress) is nice enough, we suppose...
Police exulted over those tell-tale photo graphs when they raided this abortorium last autumn. But prosecutors did not need to subpoena any of the women as witnesses, for Anna Bartholomeo, 20, inmate of the North Jersey Training School for Girls, testified willingly. This young woman went to the Harley establishment last spring, when she was three months pregnant. Because she had neglected to take out a Harley anti-birth policy, "Dr." Harley wanted to charge her $150 for the abortion. Her "friend," who accompanied her, haggled the charge down to $125, whereupon Anna Bartholomeo was promptly delivered...