Word: pleadings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge was bushy-browed James Herbert Wilkerson, no friend of Capone. It was he who, two months ago, exposed and repudiated a "deal" between prosecuting and defense attorneys whereby Capone was to plead guilty to tax evasion in return for a recommendation that he be given a light sentence. In court Capone's attorney had asserted that the agreement was approved by Attorney General Mitchell and "an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury." In Washington the Department of Justice had admitted approving this deal, insisted the procedure was customary. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills had denied knowing anything about...
Last week Judge Wilkerson let Capone plead not guilty also to the conspiracy indictment, ordered a jury summoned Oct. 5, set Oct. 6 as the date for trial on the tax evasion charge...
...Syndicalists, bane of the young republic, were out on a general strike. No milk was delivered, no garbage collected. Electric light and gas lines were cut. No trolleys ran. Violence started when Civil Governor Anguero visited the jail to plead with 51 hunger-striking Syndicalists to eat. The prisoners, who in some way had obtained guns, replied by firing a few wild shots, collecting all the furniture in the jail and making a bonfire of it. Riot squads rushed in to quiet them...
...Indictment 23,256 charges you with conspiracy to violate the national Prohibition Act. How do you plead, guilty or not guilty...
Before the Commission appeared President Merlin Hall Aylesworth to plead for the life of his National Broadcasting Co.'s seven stations (WRC, Washington; WEAF and WJZ, New York; KGO, San Francisco; KOA, Denver; WTAM, Cleveland; WENR, Chicago). His company had, he said, $17,000,000 in unfulfilled broadcasting contracts on hand. It had earned its first "small profit" last year on $20,000,000 gross business. It had leased 27 new studios in Manhattan's Radio City. A revocation of its licenses would ruin its business. Questioned by caustic Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, an intervener in the case...