STATES & CITIES: Indian in the Woodpile

Indian in the Woodpile

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Out of the spacious oak-paneled chamber of New York State's Court of Appeals at Albany, last week issued a fine distinction. The case was one of Municipal bribery, civic corruption. The decision confirmed the jailing of a citizen who had refused to tell a committee of the Legislature whether he had bribed an official of New York City. At the same time it denied that that legislative committee had power to deal similarly with any suspected citizen in its search for civic...

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