Word: subpoenae
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...forbidding them to make public their findings as to the causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
...boards : i) to investigate facts of disputes growing out of the collective bargaining clause of the Recovery Act; 2) to hold employe elections "when it shall appear in the public interest"; 3) to subpoena documents and witnesses; 4) to issue orders and regulations, disobedience of which would subject any person to a $1,000 fine or a year in jail. Day before the steel strike was due to break and Congress to adjourn, the measure was introduced in House and Senate. Only serious opposition came from Progressives who wanted the Wagner bill. They were placated by a declaration that...
...made as to whether he failed "to exert every reasonable effort" to make an agreement with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
...wipe out "bills payable" for a few days-window dressing to prevent depositors from catching fright. Meantime other officers of the defunct banking group, including Ernest Kanzler, Edsel Ford's brother-in-law, sat squirming in their chairs. None of Detroit's industrial elite under subpoena felt any easier as two agents of the Department of Justice stood in the shadows and noted down any admissions which could be used as a basis for criminal prosecutions...
...development which has raised gooseflesh on the sensitive epidermis of these moguls is the news that the government will subpoena forty bank presidents so that they may shed some verbal illumination on their financial practices. An added horror was lent to the announcement, when the financiers beheld their fellow martyr, Mr. Harvey L. Carke, most unwillingly damning himself by his own testimony, and when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless...