Word: subpoenaing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those indicted were mere cogs in the political machine. Only one big shot has been subpoenaed-Representative Joe Shannon. He ran one of his own candidates against a Pendergast candidate in the primary as he sometimes does. He complained afterward of "rough stuff, kidnapping, beating of my workers and the worst padding and fraudulent voting I have seen in my long political career." He departed for Washington before a subpoena could be served upon him. Said he: "Sure, I'll return to Kansas City if they want me." But a month went by. Last week he was finally...
Judge Knight's only further interest in the case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite...
...Subpoenaed last week as he stepped from the yacht of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer Irving Thalberg, Playwright Kaufman made no formal comment to the Press, but was reported by friends to have torn his hair and cried "I'm being crucified -crucified!" When he failed to appear as the subpoena directed, a warrant was issued for his arrest...
...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...