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...head of a $40,000,000 liquor syndicate, was convicted along with his "payoff man," E. C. Cohron, of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine, the maximum penalty under the law. Asked by U. S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner if he had received a "square deal," Mr. Dwyer smiled. "Positively," he said...
...cases which a dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some...
...case splashed along delightfully, few Manhattanites really caring that it was part of Attorney Buckner's zealous campaign to make Manhattan as dry as the letter of the Volstead Act, few paying any special attention to Attorney Buckner's able young assistants, who conducted much of the cross-questioning. Yet for persons to whom Manhattan's nympholepsy and relative humidity have no charm, the case still had keen interest, since one of the young assistant attorneys chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan...
District Attorney Buckner of New York is one of the men who will probably speak...
...Emory Buckner, Federal attorney of New York, whose dour padlocking of some of Manhattan's most famous places of carousal has won him fame in the smart set, was kept longest before the committee. He reiterated his views that prohibition could be enforced only by the erection of an entirely new judicial system on a gigantic scale, and the expenditure of vaster millions...