"Take off your hats and stop smoking in my court room."
Looking up from beneath his green eyeshade, Judge Charles Clark Bradley, 54, addressed his command to a rowdy crew of lowans who were shoving their way into his small court room at Le Mars (pop.: 4,788) one afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to...
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