Word: marron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Marron Fickert, 64, onetime District Attorney of San Francisco, prosecutor of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings for the 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. After his successful prosecution of Mooney and Billings, Attorney Fickert twice ran unsuccessfully for re-election as District Attorney, once ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California. He always swore that Mooney and Billings got a fair trial, though for the rest of his life he was the object of threats and imprecations. When Convict Mooney heard of Attorney Fickert's death he said bitterly: "He'll be chiefly known...
...Francisco physician) at left half did a shift that delighted Coach Walter Camp. Jackson Eli Reynolds (now president of First National Bank of the City of New York) played the other half while William Harrelson (now vice president of Bank of America) barked signals at quarter. Charles Marron Fickert (prosecutor in the famed Mooney-Billings case) and Joel Yancy Field (now ranching in Texas) as guards held an impregnable line. The "treasurer" of that 1894 team was a young fellow named "Bert" Hoover who managed to clear expenses with enough over to buy the team new uniforms. This week...
...Teaching; Senators Charles Linza McNary of Oregon; Carl Trumbull Hayden of Arizona, ex-1900; President Almon Edward Roth of Rotary International; Writer Robert Luther Duffus of the New York Times; Vice President Paul Downing of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic; District Attorney Charles Marron Fickert who helped send Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings to jail...