Word: fickert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall now tell you something which has never been told publicly before," he declared. "There is a man in the photo-engraving business in San Francisco who told me that District Attorney Charles Fickert came to him and wanted him to change the time on the clock, as it was shown in the picture. The man refused. I asked him to testify for me, but he said that would ruin his business...
Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known...
...piled up enough evidence to send Grafter Abraham Ruef to jail. Then, believing him scapegoat of a corrupt system, he fought long to get Ruef freed. Older in 1916 started a vehement crusade for Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings, during which he accused District Attorney Charles M. Fickert of "framing" the pair and was assaulted by Fickert in a hotel lobby. Refused support by his own paper, Older went to Hearst's Call, remained when the two were merged in 1929. Latter-day Older crusades were against billboards, free publicity, newspaper-owning power interests, unlimited powers for judges...
...formations. One drop-kick sailed over the hedge and Halfback Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of the City of New York, went scrambling after it. That evening 14 Stanford men sat down to dinner with the President in the State dining room. Because Lawyer Charles Fickert, flying East, was delayed by a snow storm, Representative Arthur Monroe Free of California (Stanford 1901) was hurriedly summoned to fill in. Softly the Marine Band played "A Bicycle Built for Two." There was quiet, reminiscent talk but no songs, no cheers, no collegiate informality. Despite their friendship...
...Francisco physician) at left half did a shift that delighted Coach Walter Camp. Jackson Eli Reynolds (now president of First National Bank of the City of New York) played the other half while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching in Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week...