Word: subpoenae
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Bishop Cannon (vanishing): I am at my office whenever a subpoena is issued...
...might be possible for chemists to synthesize quinine to break up the Dutch-led international monopoly of natural quinine. An easier way was for the U. S. Government to bring the suit. The prosecutors could not subpoena the foreigners. So they confiscated great quantities of quinine stored at Manhattan. To get back the goods the monopolists last week, through their U. S. lawyers, promised to cease their practices in so far as the U. S. was concerned. So the suit was nolled and withdrawn "by consent...
...fashionable season, a wealthy Chicagoan last week repaired to a $65,000 home he had lately bought on fancy Palm Inland, just outside Miami, Fla. Though Miami usually welcomes wealthy Chicagoans, this time it was inhospitable. The newspapers printed high headlines announcing the visitor's return. A subpoena was issued for his presence in the county solicitor's office...
Fifty Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee-50 cents -which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that...
Fifty Cents. Up to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as a witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee- 50 cents-which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that...