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...MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with the Senate. Mr. Hogan wanted Mr. Jurney to arrest his client in a court where a writ of habeas corpus could at once be obtained for Mr. MacCracken's release. Thus for two days the majesty of the Senate and the craft of Mr. Hogan were deadlocked. Then the Senate adjourned for the weekend and Mr. Hogan moved. At 7:30 on Saturday evening while Sergeant Jurney...
Then the young lady hurried off. Half an hour later the doorbell rang and Mr. Jurney decided to answer it himself. At the door was a U. S. deputy marshal who read him a writ of habeas corpus ordering him to present his prisoner in court on Monday morning. Mr. Jurney protested he had no prisoner but would appear in court on Monday morning. Then arrived other visitors: newshawks, photographers...
...these reasons and for Texas A. & M.'s "great contribution in helping build and mold this great Southwestern empire," District Judge W. C. Davis in Bryan last week refused the application of a group of Bryan parents for a writ of mandamus compelling the college to admit their daughters...
...sentenced Seaman Menafee to be executed by a firing squad, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, to whom capital punishment was abhorrent, acting in the absence of Secretary Daniels, commuted Menafee's sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could save Gus Menafee was Franklin Roosevelt with an executive pardon...
...exempt from military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...