Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scottish Law: The acceptance of a bribe by a judge...
More like the great Clarence Darrow, unlike such fabulous criminal defenders as the late William Fallen whose jury victories were often n to i disagreements, and who was acquitted of giving a bribe to a juror although the juror, in a separate trial, had been convicted of receiving the bribe from Fallen, Lawyer Liebowitz has won his jury verdicts outright. The records disclose only one accusation of tampering with justice. In 1932 a county judge in Brooklyn dismissed an indictment based on unsupported testimony of a confessed prostitute that Liebowitz had coached her what to testify against the police stool...
...members of the California Townsend Club, Founder Francis Everett Townsend wailed: "I was offered $200 a month bribe for the rest of my life to lay off the Townsend Plan. But I'm going to keep on fighting . . . until...
...Queen" Helen Werner, longtime Los Angeles political fixer who was tried and freed by State and Federal authorities last year on charges of bribe taking (TIME, Dec. 21), was found unconscious by police on a Long Beach lawn, booked for drunkenness. She forfeited $10 bail...
This instance the learned Sheik cited to buttress his assertion last week that the hailing of Benito Mussolini by the Moslems of Libya as "Protector of Islam" (TIME, March 22) and his triumphant entry into Tripoli marked more cozening of a bribe-giving Christian by the wily infidels. "Our religion makes it impossible for us to be loyal to a non-Moslem ruler," smiled the Sheik. "You will hardly find 1,000 Moslems among the 160,000,000 under British rule who are not eager to shake it off, and the same is true of the Italians and the French...