Word: districting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little embarrassing for all concerned: the Governor who pardoned the innocent man had been the District Attorney who sent him up the river. But the ceremony went off without a hitch. Governor Thomas E. Dewey summoned Campbell from New York City to the Executive Chamber in Albany. There, in Campbell's presence, he signed a specially engraved document. The traditional wording of a pardon had been changed from "fit object of our mercy" to "innocent of the crime for which he was convicted...
...Elfego and his triggerfinger in New Mexico. He killed five more men at various times-all, he said, in self-defense. The threat of a gun duel with Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from Albuquerque that he was in jail charged with stealing...
Another reason was service red tape. Another was the complex Navy command setup in which Kimmel held two positions, Rear Admiral Claude C. Bloch held four (including command of the 14th Naval District), and a many-hatted Rear Admiral P. N. L. Bellinger held six. "Under such circumstances," said the Board, "The Army had a difficult time in determining under which of the three shells (Kimmel, Bloch or Bellinger) rested the pea of performance and responsibility...
...Admiral Orin G. Murfin, 69, onetime Judge Advocate General, commander of the Asiatic Fleet, predecessor of Rear Admiral Bloch as commandant of the 14th Naval District, is now retired...
...Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, 66, onetime naval aide to three Presidents and Prince Axel of Denmark, socialite skipper of the presidential yacht Mayflower, commander of the Scouting Force, U.S. Fleet, was more recently commandant of the Third Naval District, New York...