Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governing commissions from police to parks. Grandstanding District Attorney Buron Fitts then joined the graft hunt, impaneled a grand jury. First graft flushed was in the civil service examinations for promotions in the police and fire departments. When an influential Mexican-born police lieutenant named Peter ("The Thin Man") Del Gado, a great friend of Police Chief James Edgar Davis, denied taking bribes to tamper the examinations, he was indicted for perjury. Last fortnight Thin Man Del Gado gave a friend $15,000 to pay his bail bond, disappeared...
...impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping. Last week he was charged with shaking down 33 ambitious policemen and firemen for sums ranging from $50 to $450, forcing the civil service department to alter unsatisfactory grades...
Haled before the grand jury, Brother Joseph refused to answer questions except about the mysterious Del Gado, said the story of the false-bottomed car was "theatrical." Under grilling he broke down, crying: "I am a poor man. . . . I've always been an honorable one. ... If this jury indicts me I hope it won't make the bail too high." The jury did indict him, along with Mayor Shaw's civil service commissioner, William Cormack, and another officeholder named only as "John Doe," on felony charges carrying a possible 14-year prison sentence...
Other delegates: Bryn Mawr College's Charles G. Fenwick, top-flight expert on political science; Chief Justice Emilio del Toro Cuevas of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; President Dan W. Tracy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Miss Kathryn Lewis, who quit Bryn Mawr to help her famed father John L., with U. A. W.; Rev. John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Mrs. Elise F. Musser, who had kept herself before South American eyes by paying a flying visit to the continent last year with a group of U. S. women...
Meanwhile, Barcelona lived through one of its most terrifying 24 hours, marked by six Rightist air raids. For the first time since the war's start the city saw a priest in full vestments march through the streets, carrying a cross, followed by Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo and General José Riquelme, among others...