Word: districting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today Borger is a city of 10,000, county seat of Hutchinson, a slovenly clutter sprawling over the prairie with a main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
Twelve tired-eyed jurors, taut and nervous, filed solemnly into the District of Columbia Supreme Court room one morning last week after a day and a night's deliberation. A young bank teller, as foreman, cleared his throat huskily, read from a blue paper in his shaky hand: "Guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court...
Inland Steel. Second largest in Chicago district. Plans to merge with Youngstown Sheet & Tube suddenly dropped...
...School Committee has scheduled two speakers to address the students during the coming months. The Honorable Emory R. Buckner, former federal district attorney of New York City will have for a topic "Practice in New York City", on Tuesday evening, November 12. January 17, the Honorable E. F. Katzenbach, Attorney General of New Jersey, will speak on "The Lawyer in Public Life...
...Buckner was admitted to the New York bar in 1908, and since then has practiced in New York City. From 1908 to 1910 he was assistant United States attorney of the Southern district of New York; in the following two years, he was assistant district attorney of New York county. After being a councilman in the Aldermanic Police. Investigation of New York City for a year, he became a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner, and Howland. In 1925 he was appointed by President Coolidge as United States district attorney for the Southern district of New York...