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...silence on moral obloquy in the Harding Cabinet; 4) his defense of onetime Senator Newberry of Michigan on the ground that the Senate had no constitutional right to look into State primaries. Assuring critics he would be a fair-minded judge, his friends in the Senate let the opposition blow itself out. made no formal effort to defend him. Mr. Hughes was confirmed as the eleventh Chief Justice of the U. S. (The vote: 52 to 26.) He was ready to take his special oath which begins: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons...
...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
...Hatry was blinded by the enormity of the thing suggested by Gialdini, simply blinded! Gialdini declared that if his scheme were not adopted he would simply blow out his brains right there in Hatry's house...
...other Hatry defendants received sentences of from three to seven years. The bitterest blow to Swindler Hatry and his friends-that he has friends is shown by the fact that a number of them subscribed $95,000 to pay for his defense-was the fact that the first two years of the Hatry sentence must be spent at hard labor. The first two weeks of his sentence he must sleep on bare boards. For 28 days the man whose champagne suppers were the talk of Mayfair must crush rocks on the stonepile. After that he will be given the slightly...
Most remarkable fact in the Hatry Swindle: members of the London stock exchange found it such a terrific blow to British confidence in securities of every kind that they formed a pool of over $5,000,000 partially to reimburse Hatry victims. These, naturally, had no legal claim whatsoever against the exchange...