Word: inquisitor
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...inquisitor learned that the illegitimate son of Mary Evelyn Frechette, one of the late John Dillingers mistresses, had died of syphilis at the Brooks farm...
...inquisitor heard that Chicago's Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, now serving a 25-year term for murdering her daughter-in-law, sent Brooks many a case from Illinois...
...inquisitor learned that Brooks once conducted the Beulah Home & Maternity Hospital in Chicago two doors from the garage where seven Chicago bootleggers were massacred on St. Valentine's Day, 1929. A search of the House last week disclosed a musty operating room and bundles of letters from girls promising to pay for upkeep of themselves and children...
...inquisitor learned that the Brooks farm contained three tarpaper-covered, board shacks for mothers and children; that 100 was an ordinary summer's turnover of mothers...
Ferdinand Pecora made many a millionaire sweat and squirm as he ferreted out Wall Street's secrets for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933 et seq.). For his services the swart, Sicilian-born inquisitor received $300 per month and the thanks of his President in the form of a one-year appointment to the Securities & Exchange Commission (TIME, July 9). Last week Lawyer Pecora received from New York's Governor Lehman the reward which he really wanted. To serve the unexpired eight years of a resigned justice's term. Governor Lehman appointed Mr. Pecora...