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...School Coffee Hour, Miss Revere told the story of her "sins," which include sponsorship of the campaign for Henry Wallace, activity in the Screen Actors Guild, membership in certain "subversive" organizations, and a general impatience with the "faults of our democracy." It was these which led to her subpoena to appear before the Un-American Activities Committee...
...Hand of the U.S. court of appeals. They felt that federal judges should not accept administrative jobs without resigning from the bench. More important, Murphy had found out that he would not get the tools he needed for a thorough stable-cleaning; he was to get no powers to subpoena witnesses, or to cite them for contempt if they proved balky. The job had been offered as a pail-and-broom detail, but what Tom Murphy needed was a bulldozer...
Owen's whole attitude, according to Judge Streit, seemed to be that basketball was more important" than anything else. Once, he even advised a player not to honor an out-of-state subpoena to appear as a witness at a murder trial, because of a conflicting basketball schedule. Said Streit: "The inference here is clear that the president of the university impressed the athlete that it was more important to play basketball that day than to serve the administration of justice in a murder case. Such an impact on the athlete's moral fiber may prove irreparable...
...committee voted to subpoena Boyle's bank account this week. If the records should show that Siskind passed along any of his fees from Lithofold, then Boyle has lied to the committee under oath, and-a far worse crime under Boyle's Law-to old friend Harry Truman...
From the Senate crime committee last week, veteran (49) Chicago Daily Newsman Ed Lahey got a hot tip. The July payroll of the Chicago Downs Race Track Association, furnished under subpoena, disclosed a string of names remarkably like those of certain Illinois legislators. Lahey, well knowing that the race track's harness races had been legalized by a special bill which the 1949 legislature approved unanimously, relayed his tip to the city desk in Chicago...