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...Mally S. ("Mai") Daugherty, small-town Ohioan, banker, brother of the onetime Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty, refused to appear before a Senate investigating committee. Forthwith, he was ordered arrested on a Senate warrant for contempt. The Federal District Court of Southern Ohio released Mr. Daugherty; said that the Senate was usurping judicial power. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court and gave to Congress sweeping powers. In order to legislate effectively, Congress has the right to summon witnesses, compel proper testimony, punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed...
Charles Birger, astute badman and bootlegger of Herrin, Ill., commented last week on the bombing and burning of his gang's love-nest, "Shady Rest" (TIME, Jan. 17). Said he: "This thing would never have happened if it hadn't been for the warrant charging me with murder that kept me from being at home when the Shelton gang called...
There will be no shift in the Crimson lineup, Coach Wachter announces. Although M. M. Green '28, regular center, has recovered from his injured ankle, the Dorn-Barbee-Leekley combination has been working smoothly and obtaining results which warrant its remaining intact. Green will probably see action before the game is far under way, however, Barbee being switched to left guard, as he is more formidable as a defense man than as a forward...
...down but never out as long as there is anything marriageable in sight the Archduke Albrecht has been paying court to the Italian Princess Giovanni and seems to be at least a Habsburg chin ahead of his Hohenzollern and Wittelbach competitors. That the family fortunes fully warrant this recourse to the final remedy is illustrated by the spectacles of the Empress of Mexico dying in Belgium and of the Empress of Austria living in Madiera...
...delve into the irregularities and peculiarities of the situation in Texas. But that such exist we cannot doubt, for wholesale pardoning is an irregularity which nothing but peculiar circumstances can warrant. Perhaps Governor Ferguson hopes to duplicate the success of Governor Len Small of Illinois, who is said to have found such tactics compatible, even necessary, to the building of an efficient political machine. Of course, a good politician must be magnanimous and appeal to every stratum of society, but until Mrs. Ferguson has shown some such lofty motive her position is open to censure...