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...morning last week Herbert Hoover, returning to California after a tour of the East, arrived in Chicago. Knowing the best place to find him, newshawks marched into the office of Capitalist Arch Wilkinson Shaw, great & good Hoover friend. No trace of Mr. Hoover was to be seen but much in evidence was Mr. Hoover's traveling companion, Ben S. Allen, onetime Associated Pressman and Wartime assistant to Hoover in Belgium. Ben Allen, whose most notable job was press-agenting the Hoover Food Administration, passed out a typewritten Hoover statement...
...duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett to preside. The Government registered 150 witnesses. Chief defense counsel was a local attorney named Hugh M. Wilkinson, loud-voiced onetime law partner of Huey Long. According to intimates, he was Defendant Shushan's second choice, picked on Long's personal orders...
...jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan or his go-betweens. Loudly Counsel Wilkinson protested that...
...called upon to disclose my plans for the defense," snapped Counsel Wilkinson...
John Burke Wilkinson of West Orange, New Jersey, has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Studentship for study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. The studentship, established by the Associated Harvard Clubs, gives a year of study at Cambridge and the scholar lives in the room which John Harvard is supposed to have occupied...