Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum, but his efforts were concentrated on earning fat legal fees from Cleveland industrialists. Thomas Watt Gregory, Attorney General (1914-19), prosecutor of trusts, had resigned two years before the end came. He returned to Texas; legal fees consoled...
...criminal court clutched his cross and doggedly refused to reveal what the prisoner had told him in confessional. Just as the confidences of a lawyer's or doctor's client are privileged in U. S. courts, so this priest insisted were his confessional secrets. The public prosecutor cajoled and bullied; the priest remained obdurate. The judge ended the Punch & Judy show by fining the priest one Swiss franc ($0.1923) for contempt of court, and dismissing him as a witness...
...entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions out of 287 cases during his 15-month term-an astounding record. On such food the inquisitor of the Senate was trained. For two terms he was an able Mayor of Kansas City. In 1904 he reached prematurely for the governorship and received his only popular defeat...
...party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry had kept to the "decencies of controversy," for "if the decency of controversy is observed, even the fundamentals of religion may be attacked without the matter being blasphemous." Editor...
...community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped him full of bullets . . . the poor...