Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago as 1933, Cleveland's County Prosecutor Frank Cullitan tried to prove that Don Campbell, president of the Painters District Council, and his crony John McGee, president of the Laborers District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through...
That Communist Dictator Stalin means to continue the Moscow trials & executions, which have been going on since 1928, was suggested last week by the closing summary of Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky. "Let your sentence, Comrade Judges, resound as a bell calling for new victories!" he cried. "Crush the accursed vipers . . . foul dogs . . . disgusting villains...
They chuckled and even laughed aloud between phrases of their most damaging admissions. As Vishinsky would get half through a sentence the prisoner he was supposed to be grilling would snatch the words out of his mouth and finish the sentence before the prosecutor could-and since it was the agreed sentence Vishinsky let it go at that. The usual dramatic effects Vishinsky has standardized were also given. Thus when a prisoner named Prokopy Zubarev testified that in the remote past the Tsarist police gave him 15 rubles ($7.50) on two successive occasions, Vishinsky responded with his menacing stage whisper...
Money for Trotsky. Prisoners examined by Prosecutor Vishinsky last week testified that both before and after Trotsky's expulsion from Russia (TIME, Jan. 1, 1928, et seq.), they have kept him always supplied with enormous sums: one time 20,000 German marks; then 15,000 Sterling pounds; in all a cool $1,000,000. Exile Trotsky, who issued voluminous heated replies to Moscow daily from Mexico City last week, included this: "I state categorically that the only sum I have received from the Soviet Treasury since my banishment from Russia was $2,500. . . . This sum of money was given...
...technique was simple, according to Prosecutor Burns: The exigencies of traveling would cause the circus to abandon a large number of animals they had never owned. Without the animals they no longer had need of chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned-so were wagons, horses and railroad cars. "Bridgeport, Conn.," said Mr. Burns in a rather bitter mood, "must have resembled a jungle when the circus moved from there to new winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. in 1927. Income tax returns for that year show the abandonment of 46 elephants, 23 camels...