Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Fox, still under subpoena, lay ill abed, rising only when he heard that the investigation was ending (see col. 3). The final session was marked by the appearance of two women who lost money in the market. The Senators listened to Miss Grace Van Braam Roberts of Highland, N. Y., "farmer," suffraget and clubwoman. She was no ordinary sheared, bleating lamb but a shrewd woman who was once a very active trader, whose father was the late Charles Henry Roberts, president of the Carolina Central Railroad and whose brother is Owen F. Roberts, former independent member...
...Week. In a Washington hotel early last week William Fox, hounded onetime head of Fox Film Corp., still lay ill abed with diabetes, dizziness and a bad cold (TIME, June 27). Though refusing to release him from its subpoena, Senator Peter Norbeck's Banking & Currency Committee finally decided not to quiz him until hearings on stock exchange practices are resumed next autumn (see col. 1). Cineman Fox promptly rose from his sick bed, checked...
Bishop Cannon (vanishing): I am at my office whenever a subpoena is issued...
Later Senator Walsh declared the Bishop to have been "in plain contempt of the Senate," but the Bishop replied that as the Committee lacked a quorum to subpoena him then and there, it was no committee, could not hold him officially in contempt...