Word: subpoenaed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the trust actually keeps the Mellon pictures in the Mellon family and that MelIons may go on dangling their sugar plum until doom's crack. The Mellon pictures are now locked securely in Washington's Corcoran Gallery, unseen except by MelIons and friends and, once by subpoena, by Government Counsel Robert Houghwout Jackson. In 1931, just five of them were transferred to the trust, supposedly for tax purposes...
...lawyer hurried to a telephone. Presently a shiny automobile rolled up to Children's Court. Out of it bustled a little black man who until that moment had ignored the Court's subpoena. He shuffled...
...forbidding them to make public their findings as to the causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
Chairman Leo Thomas Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was about to leave his room in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder one day last week and go downstairs to address the Wisconsin Bankers Association, when someone rapped on his door. In stepped a process server with a subpoena. Would Mr. Crowley please come right away? The Grand Jury could not wait. Mr. Crowley shook his head. frowned, remonstrated, finally went. While the Wisconsin bankers thrummed their fingers for 30 minutes, the Grand Jury extracted from Mr. Crowley all he knew about closed banks in Milwaukee county. Then and then only...
...boards : i) to investigate facts of disputes growing out of the collective bargaining clause of the Recovery Act; 2) to hold employe elections "when it shall appear in the public interest"; 3) to subpoena documents and witnesses; 4) to issue orders and regulations, disobedience of which would subject any person to a $1,000 fine or a year in jail. Day before the steel strike was due to break and Congress to adjourn, the measure was introduced in House and Senate. Only serious opposition came from Progressives who wanted the Wagner bill. They were placated by a declaration that...