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...took just seven hours for Prosecutor Knight to restate his case. It did not differ from the one his father, as a State Supreme Court Justice, had previously upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested...
...Davis of New York and the Honorable George W. Wickersham. And again in May of 1935 the Illinois Appellate Court spoke on this subject in the case of City National Bank v. Davis Hotel Corporation, 280 Ill. App. 247, and said that the court has now found "tiresome and vain repetitions of these further abominations-and/or, was/were, is/are, it/he, its/his, it/him-so do bad habits grow." A. R. HULBERT Attorney and Counsellor at Law Chicago...
Last week Councilman Bigelow produced a deadlock by refusing to vote either with the four Charterites or with the four Republicans for a mayor, ostensibly because he wanted Cincinnati to get its power from TVA. In vain did the city manager explain that TVA would not be ready to deliver power for five years, that the city already had contracts with private power companies which the electorate had apparently considered satisfactory. To this Councilman Bigelow replied: "It's not a struggle over rates in Cincinnati, but an important section in the great fight of President Roosevelt...
...fifteen year old secondary school boy who had been assigned the writing of a Christmas poem was still struggling at eleven O'clock the night before the poem was due, with two or three lame lines. Finally, having searched in vain for acceptable synonyms, he sagely remarked that he considered the meaning more important than the metre. I agreed and, as he trudged off to bed, I reflected upon some reading that I had just done in the works of an author with an extraordinary facility for rhyming. This particular author is scintillating, facetious, and resourceful, but my conclusion...
...Roosevelt as a candidate for the State Senate in 1910, nominated him for the Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...