Word: bribing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Lindsey was elected judge of the Juvenile Court of Denver in 1901 and served in that position until his recent disbarment on the charge of accepting a bribe. A candidate for governor of Colorado in 1906, he has become famous as the author of a number of books on the problems of the younger generation. His best known and most controversial works are "The Revolt of Modern Youth," written in conjunction with Wainwright Evans, and "The Companionate Marriage...
...charge against Doheny was that he had bribed Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, in 1921, with $100,000 in cash, delivered by Doheny's son in a little black bag, in return for a lease on the Elk Hills Naval oil reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking...
...Injury is done to a third party. And culpability between the participants is not always equal before the law. In most states an adulterous wife is more punishable than the man (supposing him single) who committed the offense with her because she has betrayed a marital trust. A bribe-taking public official is likewise more punishable, because he has betrayed a public trust, than the bribe-giver, who is under no specific oath of honesty. The net result of last week's trial was to make the $100,000 Doheny gave Fall a legitimate loan...
...Attorney of Los Angeles Asa Keyes (pronounced Kize; no kin to New Hampshire's Senator Keyes in col. 1) sent 4,030 men and women to California prisons for every variety of crime. Last week he joined this criminal company himself, entered San Quentin Prison as a convicted bribe-taker, a betrayer of public trust...
...under California's corporation laws. He asked dismissal of the charges. This motion Superior Court Judge William Doran denied. The trial dragged to an acquittal. Judge Doran flayed District Attorney Keyes for his "lackadaisical methods of prosecution." Five months later Keyes was indicted for conspiracy to receive a bribe from the men he had so feebly prosecuted in the Julian case. Tried and convicted, he was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment...