Word: jurists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody was more puzzled by this spectacle than Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, who sent Al Capone to prison but who was no fresher in his mathematics than any other jurist nearly 50 years out of school...
Destruction of the picture did not seem like chivalry to Police Judge William A. H. Ely. Within four hours that Republican jurist had sentenced John Smiukse to six months in the Westchester County Penitentiary at Eastview. At the end of that time he will be rearraigned for illegal entry into...
...jurist and lacking even a high school diploma, the intuitive Chancellor some months ago ordered Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner to produce concrete suggestions. Last week Dr. Gürtner advised Herr Hitler that the revised code should...
Died. Sir Henry Fielding ("Mr. Harry") Dickens, K. C., 84, British jurist, onetime (1917-32; Common Serjeant of the City of London, sixth son, tenth and last surviving child of Charles Dickens; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he was struck by a motorcycle; in a shabby municipal hospital where he was taken after the accident. Unlike his father's "Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz" and "Mr. Serjeant Snubbin" he was rated a kindly judge...
Died. Robert William Chambers, 68, novelist, painter, angler, hunter, collector of butterflies, armor and Japanese art; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. Son of a Brooklyn jurist, he studied art in Paris, drew sketches for Life, Vogue, began to write. Critics, impressed by The King in Yellow, his second book, were disappointed when he began turning out two perfumed and aseptic romances a year. (Total production: 60 novels.) "Literature! The word makes me sick!" he snorted. His painstaking historical research was largely lost on his millions of readers (Ashes of Empire, Cardigan). He was the first U. S. author...