Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the university filled Harrison's place with a second public figure-former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, 73. He had graduated from the Pennsylvania law school summa cum laude in 1898, taught on its faculty until 1918, won fame as a prosecutor during the Teapot Dome scandals. On Hoover's Supreme Court, he had found himself a liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading...
When the court of appeals which reviewed the case ordered a new trial, Orbay's father, Chief of Staff Kiazim Orbay, resigned. Ankara's public prosecutor also resigned. At the new trial the eyewitnesses were finally allowed to appear, and unanimously identified Hashmet Orbay as the murderer. Merdjan admitted that he had been persuaded to take the blame, on the promise that highly placed friends of his friend Orbay would get him off lightly. Sole witness in Orbay's defense was shapely, blonde Musherref Ishikman, his "fiancee," who testified that Hashmet had been visiting...
...Prosecutor O'Dwyer unmercifully, had initiated an investigation of his office. La Guardia won the election, hands down. After the votes were counted O'Dwyer went into the Army as a major in the Provost Marshal's office...
Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war-crime trials, noted happily that he was a much more popular author in Japan than ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, the No. 1 defendant. The published text of Tojo's defense affidavit had sold 5,000 copies, the Japanese version of Keenan's summation...
...year before her run-in with the federal men, Billie grossed close to $50,000, but had nothing left of her lifetime earnings of $250,000. According to her sympathetic federal prosecutor, the "worst type of parasite you can imagine" used to follow her around, charge $100 a dose for narcotics they sold to other addicts for as little as $5. By that time, Billie was looking gaunt, singing badly, and had fallen into the exasperating habit of walking out on waiting audiences without explanation...