Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of the court was Crampton Harris of Birmingham, Ala., Senator Black's onetime law partner, who had been hired as special counsel for the Lobby Investigation. Said Attorney Harris: "It is difficult to conceive of any injury at all resulting from obedience to the [Senate] subpoena unless the complainant has sent messages of such a type that they should not be entitled to protection by any court. ... In no instance has a Congressional investigation ever held up to the public gaze documents of a private and personal nature." The Senate, argued its hireling, is the sole judge...
...Birmingham, when Mrs. Ernestine Meeks refused probation for a liquor law violation and began to serve a 60-day jail term, her husband, sometime subpoena server, crowed: "There has been a lot of talk about us having a drag. I want people to know we serve our time in jail like other respectable people...
...Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into the hands of Howard Colwell ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, missing master of Associated Gas & Electric Co. (TIME, July...
...Alarmed by Mr. Hopson's illness,* Senator Black asked the Department of Justice to serve a subpoena on him in Manhattan. A deputy marshal failed to find him. Not surprised by the Senate's failure was Judge John E. Mack, conducting a utilities investigation for the New York Legislature. For six months Judge Mack has been trying, with a notable lack of success, to find Mr. Hopson. At Albany last week he quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel on Runaway Hopson: They seek him here, they seek him there...
Next day Mr. Jones came suddenly to life. He would, he said, be glad to receive a process server any time, because now he intended to challenge in a New York Federal Court SEC's right to subpoena him or to regulate the issuance and sale of his securities. Cried the blond oil royalist...