Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to the Senate on charges of contempt of court, are: Samuel Insull, public utility archangel, who admitted giving $183,000 to successful candidate Frank L. Smith and to other friends and factions; Edward H. Wright, Chicago Negro boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare, Pennsylvania slush prizewinner...
...forthcoming from many a bigwig who came beneath Senator Reed's sharp eye, sharper tongue-among them: James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co.; Smith W. Brookhart, Iowa Republican Senatorial candidate; Chester Willoughby, secretary to Senator McKinley whom Brookhart defeated; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe (Leopold and Loeb prosecutor) ; A. F. Moore, Col. Smith's campaign manager, who himself contributed $75,000 to his candidate's campaign. The inquisition had disclosed the following expenditures: Frank L. Smith ...........$287,282.70 William B. McKinley .... 346,616.72 Deneen county ticket .... 130,894.63 Crowe-Barrett county ticket ........150,000.00 George...
Thus tenderly preserved by Il Duce from Latin lynching, Zaniboni had escaped extra-legal retribution up to last week, when General Prosecutor Crisafulli of Rome announced that he will be tried shortly, charged with "attempting a premeditated homicide upon Premier Mussolini which was averted by circumstances beyond the accused's control...
...solid, dark little man is Robinson, nominal leader of the Democrats. He is a downright fellow. Of late a good deal of his time has been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only he hasn't found any Republican to gibbet for the public recently. That other man with the wavy, black hair is Pat Harrison, a first-rate denouncer. There was a time when Harrison poured Greek fire on the Republicans, and Walsh poured quick lime...
...same charges by the Garfield deputies. He could not get another $25,000; so he was taken to a cell? a thin, frail young man but recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bainbridge Colby, onetime Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord left the jail, Mr. Hart was heard to say: "Instead of throwing these men into jail we ought to give them a good dousing in the river...