Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Committee investigating the oil leases adjourned, subject to call, because the supply of witnesses had been exhausted. The quarrel between Senator Walsh, Democratic prosecutor, and Senator Spencer, Republican defender, continued to the very end. Daugherty. The investigation of the Daugherty regime in the Department of Justice continued, but with its end in sight during May. There was the usual round of witnesses, most interesting of whom was Thomas W. Miller, Alien Property Custodian, who, speaking of some of Daugherty's associates, said: "I told President Harding that I did not like some of the ways of some people...
...taking bribes and otherwise being corrupt, 42 persons, therein included three judges, one prosecutor, ten investigators and a sprinkling of lawyers, were put on trial. They will probably be executed...
Last year there was an investigation of the Attorney General by the House of Representatives. He was acquitted. Last week a new investigation of the Attorney General was opened by a Senate Committee, with Senator Wheeler, radical Democrat from Montana, as its "prosecutor." The first witnesses called by the Committee gave sensational testimony. These witnesses were the divorced wife of Jesse Smith, and Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice "investigator...
...hope of the country. Only a man strong enough to throw off the imputation upon himself and his party of the toleration of less than the highest standards of public virtue will fill the crying need for a leader of the sound morality of the American people. A tried prosecutor of corruption as well as the ablest man in public life is your Chief Minister of State. Balance your reluctance to dismiss the Attorney General by withdrawing as a candidate and send Mr. Hughes throughout the country as the leader to preach the high principles that have made...
...following the second session, Herr Stenglein, State Prosecutor, became infuriated and dropped the case for the prosecution when Herr Kohl, one of the lawyers for the defense, demanded that von Kahr, von Lossow and von Seissermann be arraigned with Ludendorff, Hitler and the lesser heroes now being tried. After a lapse of two days he was persuaded to take the case again...