Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws, but, based as they are on provisions against fraud and misrepresentation, they are not much use in the companies' campaign against the genuine insurance counselor. Efforts to convict a Manhattan counselor not long ago under he New York anti-twisting law were soon thwarted by the State Supreme Court, a reversal which led to revision of the law to make things difficult for all counselors...
...combination or agreement the purpose or effect of which is to restrict or control the output or the prices of aluminum." Effect of Judge Gibson's order was to require Government attorneys to come into his court and attempt to convince him that they were not trying to convict the company a second time for the same offense...
...strolled into headquarters, encountered a stranger who, when questioned, gave him a dollar and told him to keep his mouth shut. Stealing out to the street, Agent Schaefer signaled a policeman, exclaimed: "I've just captured a criminal." In the shack the policeman arrested Owen Bickel, 17, a convict who had just escaped from two Federal officers...
...member of a three-man lunacy commission appointed by a General Sessions Judge, Jimmy Walker, who is chiefly interested at present in rearing an adopted daughter and breeding Irish terriers and fancy chickens on his new Long Island farm, will help to examine an addled ex-convict awaiting sentence for robbery. Usual pay for such services to the City of New York...
Some 15 years ago one Harvey W. Church, Chicago murderer, threw himself into a similar state. After three months of fretting, Illinois justice hanged the sulker. In California, however, a convict must be sentenced within five days of the jury's verdict and must be fully aware of the sentence. So Judge Frank M. Smith went to the jail's hospital to see if he could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith...