Word: subpoenae
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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...
...last one in the world to claim any right to interfere with the powers of the Senate or with the exercise of its legitimate discretion. Where it has discretion, I have nothing else to say about it, nor has any other judge. . . . Feeling as I do, that this subpoena goes way beyond any legitimate exercise of the right of subpoena duces tecum, I think that I am bound to grant the injunction. . . . The plaintiffs here have a legitimate interest in the controversy, and they have the right to be protected by the court when they claim protection under the Fourth...
...that the court keep Western Union from giving up to the Senate Committee a certain telegram which he sent April 5, 1935 to James T. Williams Jr., Hearst editorial writer in Washington, ordering a series of anti-New Deal editorials. Since this telegram was specifically named in a Senate subpoena, Justice Wheat declared it could not be classed as an unreasonable search and seizure of papers...
...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...