Word: courts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false picture of court and boudoir high jinks at Versailles which, had they been true, would have considerably speeded up the Revolution...
...skyscraper capitol in 1935. Huey never had much use for a free press. He reserved State advertising, State printing for papers that backed his cause-including Louisiana Progress, which he owned himself. Once he tried to tax every daily in Louisiana out of existence, but the U. S. Supreme Court held his act unconstitutional...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
Silent Shushan. What got the Item in trouble last week was a case that opened in Louisiana's Federal court against Abraham Lazard Shushan (who once backed Huey Long financially, in return got his name on New Orleans' palatial Shushan Airport) and four other defendants accused by the Government of using the mails to defraud. According to the grand jury's indictment, they shared a fee of $496,000 on a false claim that they had saved the Orleans Levee Board $2,000,000 in a bond-refunding operation...
Kurt George Wilhelm Ludecke, onetime friend and subordinate of Adolf Hitler, had his application for U. S. citizenship turned down in a Detroit court, pending a future hearing. Reason: The judge had read Ludecke's I Knew Hitler, declared Author Ludecke "a cheap politician . . . dumb as an oyster in the shell . . . anti-everything...