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...Carson's desk, at Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, was an arsenal of blank search warrants, summonses, writs, a full repertory of badges for police, detectives, sheriffs, coroners, Federal agents. When a story broke Carson simply faked an appropriate document. A tough, impersonating reporter or Carson himself did the rest. The evidence was usually photostated in the office, quietly returned, the forged "writ" destroyed. A dozen sets of wiretapping apparatus supplemented his arsenal...
...York Supreme Court, Belgium's Government-in-exile obtained a writ attaching U.S. funds of the Bank of France. Explaining what the writ was about, Ambassador Extraordinary Georges Theunis had a strange story to tell...
Last week a lieutenant of police called on Ted Scott at his office, politely arrested him. On the way to the police station Scott bounced out of a car, ran across a street into the Canal Zone, only to be bounced back by Zone authorities. A writ of habeas corpus that he secured rebounded off a convenient Panamanian statute denying this right to foreigners charged with meddling in local politics...
General Hugh Samuel Johnson is a lively columnist, a good Episcopalian, a strong believer in conscription. Last week, seeking ammunition for a pro-conscription broadside, Columnist Johnson resorted to Holy Writ. Titling a column "Biblical Draft," he cited Scripture to his purpose: Numbers XXVI, 1-2, for registration of the whole adult population and classification as to its availability for military service; Numbers XXXI, 3-4, for assignment of quotas, and Deuteronomy XX, 5-9, for a likely list of exemptions from active service...
Former pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Fresno, Wall petitioned the District Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition to prevent the University authorities from paying Russell's salary and to force voiding of his contract with U.C.L.A...