Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clifford Hoffman, counted on by his University of Southern California mates to place first in both the shot and discus, came second to Gerken, California captain in the former event, but did over 147 feet with the metal plate to lead the field...
Henry Ford's detectives had been ferreting around the courthouse since the trial started, six weeks ago. Last week they charged Mrs. Cora Hoffman, one of the jurors, with perjury. She had said, at the time of the jury examination, that she was unbiased, whereas she had told friends that she hoped to make matters unhealthy "for old man Ford." She had said that her husband was a plumbing contractor, whereas Mr. Ford's detectives found him to be the operator of a "blind pig" (saloon). According to detectives, she had held mysterious conversations involving palatable sums...
Equipped with these charges and with contempt of court rules, a reporter of Publisher Hearst's scurrilous Detroit Times approached Mrs. Hoffman, questioned her. The Times published her denials of the charges, along with this statement: "It seems to me," said she, "that someone is trying to keep this case from the jury...
...publication of this interview prompted Federal Judge Raymond to grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...
...Bloede Scholarship, with an income of $500 awarded to students of industrial chemistry and the other is the Hoffman Scholarship an income of $400 for students of chemical engineering...