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...Samuel Seabury, longtime Tammany foe. Referee Seabury named small, Austrian-born Isidor Jacob Kresel, 52, to be special counsel for this inquiry. Lawyer Kresel has had ample experience in dealing with unsavory situations. Graduated from Columbia in 1900, he has been assistant district attorney for New York County, helped impeach Governor William Sulzer (1913), has probed insurance irregularities, meat packers, ambulance chasers for State and city investigations. He is counsel for Bank of United States which crashed last fortnight. Policemen. First puddle Counsel Kresel dipped his hand into was the Women's Court. Month ago he held a three...
...LaGuardia accused U. S. Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern New York District of dry entrapments. Judge Cooper was censured by the House Judiciary Committee. Last year Mr. La-Guardia led his colleagues to impeach U. S. Judge Francis Asbury Winslow of Manhattan for misconduct in bankruptcy cases. Judge Winslow resigned under fire. At present Mr. LaGuardia is actively pressing impeachment charges against U. S. District Judge Grover M. Moskowitz of Brooklyn...
...Attorney-Generalship before Mr. Mitchell): "It [the snoop system] cannot be justified upon any theory of law or justice or expediency. ... I predict that the system will be discontinued. ... It involves fake or fraudulent commitments. . . . These commitments must involve the courts. I would not hesitate to vote to impeach a judge who had signed or issued such papers. . . . It is about 300 years behind the times in prison management...
...receive any report from you as representing a legally convened legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen to patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following the tactics of onetime Governor Jack C. Walton, who was impeached in 1923. At dead of night, speaker E. P. Hill of the House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen...
...While Foreign Minister Chen and the more radical Nationalist politicians were busy replying to notes at Hankow, the Nationalist Generalissimo, Chiang Kaishek, suddenly called a meeting of conservative Nationalists at Nanking. They voted to impeach the whole Nationalist Cabinet at Hankow on the ground that it is "Red," sparing only Foreign Minister Chen. Him they dubbed "misguided but loyal to Nationalism." C This keen blow by Chiang Kai-shek lopped off the Communist faction of Chinese Nationalism which has fattened at Hankow on Russian support. Overnight the Russian "adviser" to the Nationalist Government, Michael Borodin, went into hiding, "vanished." Then...