Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that fight, paid his forfeit. Jack Dempsey was ready to fight last week because a dauntless little man with a brown mustache had come forward to champion him and thousands upon thousands of reputable New York businessmen who had been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police-appointing powers from the city's Common Council (called "The Forty Thieves") and set up a Board...
...special prosecutor of rackets. Impressed, Governor Lehman named four well-known lawyers, including Charles Evans Hughes Jr., asked that one of them take the job. Unanimously they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice; the Governor doubted whether his name...
...Supreme Court was delegated to the Attorney General by the Judiciary Act of 1789. First Attorney General was elo quent, dark-eyed Edmund Randolph, George Washington's Virginia lawyer, whose record of attainment at 36 was fabulous. Asked by Congress for recommendations on how to better the administration of justice, Lawyer Randolph industriously analyzed the defects of the original Judiciary Act, suggested changes...
...Edmund M. Morgan, Acting Dean of the Law School, who announced the new changes, in commenting on the new admission requirements, said...
...Boston Globe declared that they had learned of Landis' appointment "from a highly reliable source." The only official sources through which this rumor could be confirmed, namely the President and Fellows of the University, could not be contacted at the time the statement appeared. Edmund M. Morgan '02, professor of Law and acting dean of the school, declared that he had no statement to make on the subject...