Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...
...which he is able to lay bare. The divorce proceedings follow directly. In the court Peggy protests her innocence, and in a passionate outburst, flays a legal system which demands the truth, but will use only so much of it as is applicable to the purposes of the prosecutor. In the final scene the writer of the anonymous letter is revealed, the husband returns, and all is finished as it ought...
...group of oil companies, on affairs relating to Mexico, in an address to the Wilson Administration. Part of his fee $2,000) had been paid by one of Mr. Doheny's companies. The oil odium was so great that the President was obliged to withdraw his name as prosecutor...
...trial the public prosecutor, in addressing the jury, said he saw no place for extenuating circumstances, but added: "The mother of the dead asks you, gentlemen of the jury, through me, to grant such circumstances to the murderess of her son. So grant them, but give a firm, clear and just verdict...
...besmirch and defame, whenever one of them crossed his path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...