Word: judgeships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepting a beauty contest judgeship from Syracuse University Artist Flagg declared: "All sorts of colleges every year do this to me . . . and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land. . . ." -ED. Chaunk v. Chomp...
...Tammany leaders collect on the patronage they dole out. Miss Annie Mathews, onetime (1922-29) Register of New York County and now leader in the same Democratic district with big fat-faced Martin J. Healy, whose indictment last year for accepting a $10,000 bribe in return for a judgeship began the Scandals of New York, addressed a League of Women Voters meeting, startled the community by declaring innocently...
...made known who shot Gambler Arnold Rothstein (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928) or Racketeer Jack ("Legs") Diamond (TIME, Oct. 20). He was lax in prosecuting unscrupulous bondsmen, dock racketeers and ambulance chasing lawyers. He failed to obtain an indictment in the case of retired Magistrate Ewald, suspected of buying his judgeship for $10,000, which was later thrice tried unsuccessfully (TIME, Feb. 2). Of 623 grand jury indictments for grand larceny sent to his office, only 32 were tried and convicted. From this ecord it appeared that instead of diligently executing his trust, Sachem Grain had merely been a placid front...
...behalf of Ernest Michel, his candidate for a Federal judgeship, Minnesota's blind Senator Schall last week carried to the White House his fight against Attorney General Mitchell, chief Michel critic. He told President Hoover: "Taft wrecked his Administration by trusting Ballinger, Harding wrecked his by trusting Daugherty and Fall. Are you going to wreck yours by further trusting your Attorney General...
...contest for his Senate seat in 1924. Last autumn eloquent "Tom" Davis, while supporting Farmer-Labor candidates otherwise, supported Republican Senator Schall for reelection. Mr. Schall won-and promptly, as he had publicly promised to do, recommended "Tom" Davis' partner, Ernest A. Michel, for a Federal judgeship that was vacant in Minnesota...