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Four panels are planned for Saturday afternoon, to follow a talk by Jack McMichael, chairman of the Youth Congress. They will deal with academic freedom, the college press, student finances, and conscription. Three prominent professors will talk Saturday evening, Professor Doxey Wilkerson of Howard University, Professor Colston Warne of Amherst College, and Professor Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature...
...Fitts had been there first. On election night the "Fitts Victory Ball" collapsed early in a welkin of gloom. Industry patriarchs burned their lamps late exchanging phone calls on ways & means of getting on pleasanter terms with Dockweiler. In his next Hollywood Reporter editorial, W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson, the industry's mouthpiece, trumpeted: "The King is dead. Long live the King." With lachrymose solemnity he recalled that Fitts had been a great friend, protecting the industry from phonies. But Wilkerson hopefully observed that "nervousness" over Dockweiler was premature: "John Dockweiler, aside from being a most able jurist...
Scarcely a year out of jail, he was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson for contempt of court. Four months later, the Federal Government rose from an examination of his riches and with a straight face made the statement that Capone had illegally withheld from the Government a cut of his ill-gotten gains. He was convicted on five of 22 counts of evading the income tax, fined $57,692.29, and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years, an additional year in jail for the charge of contempt. His day was dead. Depression and repeal of the 18th Amendment...
...charge to the jury, Federal Judge Wilkerson declared: "Lack of good business judgment cannot be considered a basis for conviction. Simply because a defendant embarked upon a losing business venture is no grounds for supposition of guilt. . . . Erroneous judgment may be as consistent with good intent as with...
...have examined the record carefully," decided Judge Wilkerson, "and am constrained to say that at this point in the case I cannot hold that from the circumstances proved by the United States, uncontradicted and unexplained, a reasonable man might not draw the inference of knowledge of the scheme and participation in it by each defendant. As to the scheme itself, it does not seem open to serious debate that at this point in the case the question of fraudulent character is clearly one for the jury." In nonjudicial terms, the Judge meant that Samuel Insull and his co-defendants might...