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With that, the state rested. The defense took 1 hr. 40 min. to present its case, which consisted chiefly of unsworn testimony by both Sims and Myers that they were innocent. "I believe I was in Athens at the time," said Sims. Parroted Myers: "I do believe I was in Athens at this time." State Solicitor-General Clete Johnson demanded the death penalty, told the jury: "This is an extreme case and demands the extreme penalty. It was cold-blooded assassination...
Songwriters' Case. The accusations brought in unsworn testimony by the ASCAPotentates: 1) BMI (which is owned by 600 broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the record pie through RCA Victor (related to NBC) and Columbia (a CBS subsidiary); 3) wherever possible, the stations plug BMI tunes, ignore ASCAP tunes on the "sinister" premise that (as a BMI pamphlet once put it) "the public selects its favorites from the music which it hears, and does...
...help her. The chairman of the board which ousted her, Republican Lawyer Seth Whitley Richardson, admitted that he had not "the slightest knowledge" of who Miss Bailey's accusers were or how trustworthy their information. The board had only seen the FBI's anonymous reports gleaned from unsworn informants.In his dissent to the court's decision, Justice Henry W. Edgerton objected: "Without trial by jury, without evidence and without even being allowed to confront her accusers or to know their identity, a citizen of the United States has been ..." A found disloyal Government to the worker...
...Security Agency for suspected "Communism." According to the New Yorker magazine, the lady had produced witnesses who said she was a vigorous anti-Communist. But she lost her job--despite the fact that no witnesses confronted her, and despite the fact that the "only evidence against her was the unsworn statements of unknown persons," whose allegations rest in a still-secret FBI report...
...Foot Guard old (72) Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby'') Cross, one-time Yale dean, marched into the Capitol at Hartford last week to be received by the General Assembly and sworn in for his third term as Governor. An hour later he marched out again, still unsworn. Deadlocked between Republicans and Democrats with three Socialists holding the balance, the Senate continued to take ballot after futile ballot to elect a clerk. Governor Cross went ahead with his Inaugural Ball that night, was sworn in late next day after the Socialists had swung to the Republicans on the 110th ballot...