Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty of contempt and fined to the extent...
President Coolidge appointed a special flood commission; as nominal head of the Red Cross, issued calls for relief funds; steadfastly refused to summon special flood session of Congress; argued that the emergency would be over before Congress could...
...Usher of the Black Rod. . . . Lieutenant General Sir William Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., K.C.M. B., B.D.S.O., receives $1,000 per annum ($4,860) for acting as the Black Rod, and carrying it: a massive staff of ebony surmounted by a golden lion. Last week he was sent, as usual, to summon the Speaker and the Commons before the Lords. As he approached the Chamber of the Commons, unsmiling attendants closed the door, as usual, in his face. Thus was affirmed the right of Honorable Members to free speech, even at the displeasure of the Sovereign. Three times the Black Rod raised...
...stories. The "trouble" is nearly always sex. Last year, 1,000 girls came to him; 800 "had not let mother in on the secret." In one case, the Judge will personally arrange for the baby to be smuggled away at birth to a childless couple. In another, he will summon a proud citizen and make him agree to let his son marry the grocer's daughter. Almost always he fixes it. But, in 26 years, he has found that what happens sexually is so different from the current sex-mores that he has finally (TIME, Jan. 24) come...
...contempt. The Federal District Court of Southern Ohio released Mr. Daugherty; said that the Senate was usurping judicial power. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court and gave to Congress sweeping powers. In order to legislate effectively, Congress has the right to summon witnesses, compel proper testimony, punish recalcitrant witnesses-said the unanimous,* emphatic and comprehensive decision handed down by Associate Justice Van Devanter. This decision, besides authorizing the Senate to act on the case of Mally S. Daugherty, is of immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused...