Word: mccook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anson G. McCook of Pasadena, California, and Catalina Island School; Stoughton Hall...
...afternoon last week a message sped from Manhattan to Albany, telling an alert, round-faced little Justice of New York's Supreme Court, Philip James McCook, that he was needed urgently that evening by the district attorney of New York County. Pleading illness in his family, Justice McCook slipped away from the State constitutional convention which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers...
...that they had been the innocent or terrorized dupes of the real racketeers-the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer & henchmen. It took the jury less than five hours last week to decide that these excuses were nonsense. It found every defendant guilty on every count, enabling Justice Philip J. McCook to sentence each one, if he so chooses next week, to 200-to-300 years in prison. As the jury foreman called out "Guilty" 182 times, ending their four-year reign of terror, two of the racketeers broke down, were led blubbering from the courtroom...
...year. Police Commissioner Valentine gave him a special squad of policemen and detectives too young to be tainted by corruption or disillusionment. Third, he needed an honest, fearless judge to arraign and try his prisoners. Such a man was State Supreme Court Justice Philip James McCook, who was assigned to conduct a special trial term for his cases, has since been continued for two more terms. A scholarly jurist whose off-bench fun is farming at Niantic, Conn., Justice McCook has a kindly face and manner which belie the fighting spirit that won him a D. S. C. in France...
...spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others...