Word: dif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand jury adjourned without indicting runaway James John ("Jimmy") Walker for income tax evasion. For three months Federal District Attorney George Zerdin Medalie, a Republican leftover, had been investigating the onetime Tammany mayor's finances. The grand jury had questioned Russell Sherwood, Walker's fiscal agent, nine dif- ferent times without eliciting sufficient evidence to charge a crime. Sherwood stood his ground on the time-honored formula that to answer questions might tend to incriminate him. Resurrection of the Walker case would have been a troublesome black eye for Tammany's campaign...