Word: loesch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available. But Nina was in fine shape. While silent Pianist Socrates Birsky Okuntsoff, 6. sat with the rest, sedately attentive, golden-haired Pianist Nina Lugovoy, 8, propped herself against the piano stool so she could reach the pedals, hunched herself over the keyboard and gravely played a Loesch-horn Etude. The audience in Manhattan's Town Hall gave her a big hand. Before the last clap had died out she had already launched a vigorous performance of a Moskowsky Pantomime. Subsequent applause was deafening. Pianist Nina walked to the platform exit, gave her little silk dress a hasty jerk...
...However rough the methods they may believe in or practice, few police chiefs dared declare themselves in open agreement with the New York Commissioner. "I suppose," said Frank J. Loesch, long time head of Chicago's Crime Commission, "that he is going on the theory that violence is the only law such criminals know. The difficulty with the policy is, however ... it is likely to brutalize the police." In Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply...
...Lindbergh kidnapping might have been solved if the federal secret service alone had taken charge of it," continued Mr. Loesch. "It was mishandled because of the professional pride of the New Jersey police. What America needs is a centralized police force as in France. That would allow one officer to pursue his criminal all over the country without consulting bothersome local authorities...
...Loesch was never a member of Colonel Isham Randolph's organization for fighting Chicago gangsters called the "Secret Six." He said some reporter must have been guilty of nicknaming that unmysterious group of twenty...
...Loesch chose for the subject of his speech which he delivered in Langdell Hall last night "The Duty a Lawyer Owes to the Public." In 1929 Mr. Loesch was one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement, being appointed by President Hoover. Previously, Mr. Loesch had been the state's attorney of Cook County...