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Nine years have passed since Montana's grim-jawed Senator "Tom" Walsh, before a breathless audience that packed the big marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building, hammered out the questions & answers which sent Harry Sinclair to jail for contempt, put Albert Bacon Fall behind bars as a bribe-taker. Nine years have made the Oil Scandal investigation ancient political history. But its drama, its sensationalism, its clash and color of personalities were recalled by Washington observers who searched for something with which to compare the Senate's investigation of the House of Morgan...
...changes in the State's alimony laws in half a century. Up to last week the New York civil law, as a punitive measure, required a judge to jail a husband who was in default on his payments to his divorced wife. Incarceration was on the technicality of contempt of court-that is, the husband's refusal to pay what the judge had ordered. Whether the husband was able to pay or not made no difference. Once behind bars, his debt continued to mount, burying him under it. Many a vengeful ex-wife kept her husband in jail...
...Northwestern utilities empire in 1929 brought him & associates, two years later, Federal charges of using the mails to defraud. After an eight-week trial. Mrs. Clark, only woman member of the jury, hung the case by singly holding out for acquittal (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931).* Convicted of contempt of court for concealing the fact that she had once worked for Foshay (two weeks as a stenographer), she was sentenced to six months in jail, a $1,000 fine. (Attorneys found no U. S. precedent involving a woman juror, few sentences so severe for similarly guilty male jurors.) U. S. Circuit...
...prison term lost him his citizenship. In 1930 a St. Paul judge gave him a suspended sentence for mailing a letter to a banker addressed "robber of orphans and widows." Shoemaker roundly criticized judge & sentence in his newspaper The Organized Farmer. The judge sent him to Leavenworth Penitentiary for contempt of court. Last week in Congress Shoemaker charged that a "foreign power not overfriendly to the U. S." was backing Cuban revolutionaries in the U. S. He proposed an investigation...
...nevertheless possessed a consistent and admirable idealism and rose above the sordid dementia of most of the contemporary nostrums and reforms. From such studies as this one learns how much in the so-called "lunatic fringes" of New England, and wider human areas, is worthy of admiration instead of contempt...