Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana grand jury was impaneled eleven months ago to find out. It failed to indict. Another grand jury likewise failed, being discharged prematurely when one of the jurors reported having been offered a bribe...
...that he would not be convicted for his felony, in return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant post the successor recommended by his son-in-law, namely, William H. Remy. 4) That Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan later repeated the cash-and-immunity offer to Mr. McCray, who again refused. 5) That Mr. Jackson and Mr. Stephenson then threatened Mr. McCray, while he was serving time for his felony in Atlanta Peni- tentiary, to obstruct...
...grand jury further indicted Mayor John L. Duvall of Indianapolis for allegedly corrupt campaigning...
...Governor McCray was vague as to his future, the New York Times was not vague. Said the Times: "While in office he was indicted for a get-rich-quick-scheme. ... If he will go before the grand jury and tell the whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject...
tNow concerned with charges of political graft and corruption during the rule of D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon and Boss...