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Bill MacCracken was William Patterson MacCracken Jr., 48, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, secretary of the American Bar Association, aviation lawyer-lobbyist. Last year the Senate charged him with permitting destruction of papers which it had subpoenaed for its airmail investigation, cited him for contempt. Itching for a fight with his old enemy the Senate, famed Lawyer Frank J. Hogan (see p. 16) volunteered to defend Mr. MacCracken without compensation, had him play hide & seek with Sergeant Jurney (TIME, Feb. 12, 1934 et seq.). After the Senate had tried and sentenced his client to ten days...
...says he will run for Governor of his state next year, He may, Huey has always treated the Senate with contempt. When he was elected to that body in 1930 he did what no other member over did delayed taking his oath of office for nine months. Perhaps he feels that a withdrawal from the Senate will appeal to the American people; and it well may. Too, by running for Governor he could strengthen his fences in Louisiana. Whatever Huey's purpose was in this latest statement on his future, there is only one thing certain--he will never retire...
...closest adviser, Donald Richberg, Director of the National Emergency Council and "Assistant President." Miner Lewis began by declaring: "Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation. For Richberg, I express my personal contempt !"† Warming to his work, he later called Director Richberg a Benedict Arnold, labeled him as deceitful, treacherous, hypocritical...
...murder trial, all over the land, courthouses have been swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb-Leopold trial; only one of the 12 did not readily exhibit recognizable signs of psychosis...
...mentally infirm. Hag after hag claimed she knew the secret of how the kidnaper perpetrated his crime. Copies of the ransom notes were made to substantiate each individual's "confession." Yet what right have picnic parties to break up solemn proceedings? Why should the insane get away with contempt of court? Executions are officially witnessed, yet barred to the public. Why should murder trials be open to the public--when the "public" which swarms to the kill is mainly lunatics and monomaniacs...