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Doak v. Norris. As a Roosevelt stumpster Republican Senator Norris charged at Cleveland that Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...
...Kentucky bar in 1901, he was taken into the Paducah law office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though he had risen measurably from his hillbilly background, there was about him nothing of the traditional "Kentucky colonel.'' He remained a plain simple man with no pretense of aristocracy...
...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...