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Word: indicts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named Paul de Gaston, was fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortoria | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...many a California landholder this action seemed just and proper. The Sonoma County Grand Jury refused to indict. The District Attorney declined to act. Last week, however, Sonoma County learned to its astonishment that State's Attorney Ulysses Sigel Webb had had informations filed against 23 prominent citizens, including President Arthur Meese and Secretary Frederick Cairns of the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce, City Editor Julian Mayar of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. All were charged with kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, assault to commit bodily injury on Green and Nitzberg. The defendants, later reduced to 21. all represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After Tar & Feather | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Thus did Charles A. Beard indict the U. S. railroads before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee last fortnight. Something of an authority on railroad mismanagement. Historian Beard was urging adoption of a pending Senate resolution authorizing a railroad investigation on the order of the Banking & Currency Committee's famed stockmarket probe. Even Jesse Jones, whose RFC millions have not prevented the worst succession of railroad failures since the days of Jay Gould, has admitted that the investigation "might be a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Management | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...famed old Riggs National Bank, where every President from Buchanan to Wilson kept his personal funds. To secure an injunction against government interference the bank's officers swore that it was not dealing in securities. The Government promptly produced the bank's brokerage accounts, moved to indict its officers for perjury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Rich Men Scared | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Frank Hogan. He proceeded to put the case on the world's front pages by issuing subpoenas for ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, putting them on the stand as character witnesses. Then he created a minor sensation by himself taking the witness stand. The grand jury refused to indict and the injunction against the Government was made permanent. From that day to this Frank Hogan has been general counsel for Riggs National Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Rich Men Scared | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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