Word: generale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion, near the front, Major Hurley failed to salute General Pershing. The A. E. F. commander ordered him back, berated him. Six years later Mr. Hurley, civilian, burst jovially in upon General Pershing in his Washington office, defied being made to salute again. Gen eral Pershing was amused...
Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting...
...General" Mitchell marshaled battalions of statistics to show how U. S. court business has increased, cited the case of Judge Joseph West Molyneaux of Minneapolis who ''has broken down from overwork and is unable to return to the bench." On June 30 there were 149,033 cases, civil and criminal, pending in U. S. courts...
...Like an echo from the past came the account by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. retired Assistant Attorney-General, of the prosecution of Prohibition cases. With patent pride she gave the year's figures: 56,786 new cases started, 56,455 finished; 47,100 convictions. 1,477 acquittals; 21,602 jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial...
...Employment Service recruited 541,280 seasonal workers-cotton, apple, strawberry pickers, wheat, potato, sugar beet harvesters-also 18,291 general farm workers...