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...less than half a dozen appearances before the City Council, fewer public speeches. In Butler, Pa. one day last week he snapped at his oldtime friends, the Press photographers, when they crowded around him. They wanted to snap him because he had just been sentenced to six months in jail, a $5,000 fine and removal from office...
...counsel obtained a stay of sentence by appealing to the State Supreme Court, which will hear the case Oct. 2. Should the appeal fail Mayor Kline will go to the Allegheny County jail, there to join his onetime Director of Supplies Bertram L. Succop, whom he dismissed when the investigation into municipal buying began...
...handbook of civics. It took place in the headlines and in Room 304 in the U. S. Senate office building where sits the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Defendant Mitchell had been charged with no crime. But had he failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...
Last week, sitting always at Chairman Norbeck's right, Mr. Pecora put on the show. His the right to question; Mr. Mitchell's the duty to answer no more no less than suited Mr. Pecora-and Senator Brookhart darkly hinted that a jail cell was ready if the banker balked. Banker Mitchell proceeded to say enough to damn himself to the satisfaction of the Committee, Mr. Pecora and a large part of the U. S. people by the following admissions...
Walter Winchell, New York Mirror colyumist, had just filed his "On Broadway" from the Miami Western Union office when a messenger dashed in with the news from the park. Winchell sprinted straight to the jail where he talked his way up to the cell block and eavesdropped on the sheriff's examination of Zangara. He wired the Mirror that night that Zangara "gave every indication of being crazy...