Biography
George Skakel, a seaman, was arrested in New Orleans on Wednesday, August 21, 1935 for distributing leaflets criticizing the Hearst-Warner film Stranded at the Orpheum Theatre. The report identifies both defendants as American League Against War and Fascism members and later as Socialist Party members. They appeared before Judge E. K. Skinner, who had the theater manager identify them and remanded them to jail under a purported ordinance 3121. The newspaper says no such ordinance was found at City Hall and connects the prosecution to the League’s opposition to Huey Long. This is an attributed report of political leafleting custody, not an independently adjudicated finding about the ordinance. No actual discharge or term is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n203-NAT-aug-24-1935-DW-Q.pdf#page=5
